On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 11:39 -0700, Alan Hodgson wrote:
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 08:49:12PM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote:
That just doesn't make sense. while I understand this is the place we find ourselves, it doesn't make sense that one OSS platform cannot do a simple thing with another OSS platform.
Ah, if only Java were OSS.
Alan has pointed out ... and I will reiterate it, just in case anyone doesn't know.
Java is _NOT_ open source ... and it can not be redistribute with out a license from Sun. We can not distribute it via a free distro.
MP3 also requires a royalty payment for every player distributed, and therefore can not be distribute by CentOS.
While I personally am not happy about either of those situations, we (The CentOS Project) do follow the laws for distribution of software.