[CentOS-devel] Re: sun java rpms in on dev.centos.org

[Dag Wieers]

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Jim Perrin wrote:

> > What's the reasoning for renaming the (jpackage) package name from
> > java-1.5.0-sun to java-1.5.0-centos?
> >
> > Offhand, I'd consider that modification odd/unwise, unless there's some good
> > (but not obvious to me) justification for doing so.
> 
> Simply, it's not sun java, so there's no need or reason to have the
> sun name there.
> The java package is from
> https://jdk-distros.dev.java.net/developer.html, released under the
> DLJ license. The original binary is jdk-1_5_0_07-distro-linux-i586.bin
> 
> Because it's built for Centos, centos is added to the name. There are
> differences between this java, and the java jdk found at sun, so
> calling them both sun java would be incorrect and may lead to
> confusion though the differences are mostly in the jdk packaging and
> attached license.

The name appended is the upstream provider. Therefor it is not IBM's 
java and not BEA's java and certainly not CentOS's java. It is SUN's java 
:)

So yes, like Rex suggested, it should have appended 'sun' not 'centos'

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