[CentOS] RHWAS rebuild efforts

Sun Mar 11 21:48:04 UTC 2007
Leonel <lnunez at gmail.com>

On 3/11/07, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:
> Leonel wrote:
> >> The java stuff isn't there (because we cannot distribute the JDK) and
> >> we're still waiting for the mysql sources. PHP and other stuff already
> >> is in centosplus.
> >
> > Can CentOS  get this licence ?
> >
> > https://jdk-distros.dev.java.net/
> >
>
>
> We've had this conversation before, and the answer to your question is -
> Maybe, but we dont want to.
>
> firstly, we dont want to be distributing the non-open source java. We'd
> rather wait for them to really open it up all the way.

This is what has keept me from working with java but  the times are changing...

http://fitzsim.org/blog/?p=14
and
http://blogs.sun.com/tmarble/resource/FOSDEM-2007/FOSDEM-2007-RedHat.pdf

leonel