On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: > As Russ has said, they are not. More context (said in our back archive, but recapped recently [and it should have crossed http://planet.centos.org/ when I issued this update] at http://orcorc.blogspot.com/2010/08/chickens-coming-home-to-roost.html which point to the primary source of the analysis of problems a license and rights review turned up) > Indeed. Unfortunately we are not there. Not yet. Really, I do not see a future in which Oracle CAN sufficiently 'free' Java at least through v 1.6 series; and the related test kit [assuming for the sake of argument that it was INCLINED to do so]. The upshot of recent LSB calls is that the 'trial use' of Java will be withdrawn in the upcoming 4.1 refresh, until and unless this future brightens [probably at least 2-3 years] -- Russ herrold