[CentOS] java

Ioannis Vranos ivranos at freemail.gr
Thu May 3 20:18:25 UTC 2007


Les Mikesell wrote:
> 
> I don't see how, regardless of what the Sun agreement says, you could be 
>  held any more or less responsible for redistributing java than any 
> other software component you redistribute.  That is, someone would have 
> to successfully sue over damages from a software flaw first and if 
> people could do that, Microsoft would have been out of business many 
> years ago.  And it is bound to be less buggy than the version you do 
> distribute...
> 
> Anyway, according the the link I posted (which I can't check myself), 
> you can now use RHEL up2date to get sun java, so Red Hat must have 
> worked something out too.


Scientific Linux 4.x comes with sun java too.




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