[CentOS] java
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu May 3 20:29:35 UTC 2007
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Lance Davis wrote:
>>
>>>>> Would it be possible to have Sun's JDK in a CentOS repository using
>>>>> Sun DLJ license? This license allows the binary JDK redistribution by
>>>>> linux distributions (as far as I know Ubuntu includes the JDK under
>>>>> this license).
>>>>
>>>> we had a look at this a long time back, when the DLJ was announced
>>>> initially - and we didnt think it was open enough for us to ship
>>>> Java, also there are some legal issues that seem grey and the only
>>>> response we could get from Sun was along the lines of 'go speak to
>>>> your lawyers'.
>>>>
>>>> We dont really have any layers, so we wont be speaking to them :)
>>>
>>> The main issue is that Sun insist that we accept liability for 3rd
>>> party use - whilst Mark Shuttleworth has deep enough pockets - we
>>> dont ....
>>>
>>> We are trying to work with Sun to remove this requirement though.
>>
>> 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.
> So what is the magic command with up2date to get that? Or what repo is
> it coming from?
According to: http://apps.byuh.edu/olelo/?p=14
it is
up2date java-1.5.0-sun-devel
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Les Mikesell
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