Jim Perrin wrote:
- Sun did not open all of java under the GPL. There are still several
chunks of java which remain license encumbered and will require community workarounds or further moves by Sun to open code. Currently these include the color management code, font rasteriser code, graphics rasteriser code, and several more.
The complete classes seem to be missing at the moment anyway, SUN seems to go for a "full" release somewhen in the first half of 2007.
- Sun is not opening up the Java trademark, so any GPL'd distribution
of java will not be called 'java', but something else. I've heard that iceweasel is taken, so I don't know what the next best option is.
[root@shutdown ~]# yum -e0 -d2 provides sumatra [...] No Matches found
The fine folks at jpackage are working the details further. This basically means that for the time being, there will not be a gpl'd jdk in centos4, and packages will have to be distributed under the DLJ license (which I am not a fan of) or obtained from java.sun.com and used in conjunction with the jpackage sun-java-compat packages for best performance.
For further reading I suggest the comprehensive "General FAQ" at https://openjdk.dev.java.net/.
Cheers,
Ralph