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. -- Mark