Johnny Hughes wrote:
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.
And thats as it should be. Guess I'll need to bone up on what is and isn't free software.