Ryan <ryanag at zoominternet.net> wrote: > I've noticed some other distros (*cough* Debian *cough*) > are including java packages in their repo. Any idea how they > get away with it? They don't. The official Debian repositories do not host it. There are several 3rd party, Non-Free Debian repositories -- let alone Debian-based distros -- that aren't legal because they redistribute such in _violation_ of the licensing agreements on the software. When I was consulting at a Fortune 20 company as one of the Linux architects, I maintained a "whitelist" of distros. A few people gave me the title of "The Linux Nazi" as a result. ;-> > Maybe Sun just doesn't want to rock the boat... Sun allows near-free redistribution of the JRE for MacOS X, Solaris and Windows, but _not_ Linux. I assume the Java Desktop subscription has much to do with that. -- Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org | (please excuse any http://thebs413.blogspot.com/ | missing headers)