Jim Perrin wrote:
On 8/10/06, Greg Swallow - SkyNet gregswallow@skynetonline.ca wrote:
I just noticed them here (http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/i386/RPMS/) and looked back and didn't see any note of them on this list. I see they are licensed "DLJ 1.1" - this I guess - http://download.java.net/dlj/DLJ-v1.1.txt - which surprisingly looks like they're legal to distribute (with an operating system). Is that correct?
DLJ does make it legal to distribute, although it's not open source,
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Right now they install fine, and work for most things, but a couple
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Any other info about them you'd like?
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.
-- Rex