[CentOS] java

Thu May 3 18:57:38 UTC 2007
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Lance Davis wrote:
>
>>>> Would it be possible to have Sun's JDK in a CentOS repository using
>>>> Sun DLJ license? This license allows the binary JDK redistribution by
>>>> linux distributions (as far as I know Ubuntu includes the JDK under
>>>> this license).
>>>
>>> we had a look at this a long time back, when the DLJ was announced 
>>> initially - and we didnt think it was open enough for us to ship 
>>> Java, also there are some legal issues that seem grey and the only 
>>> response we could get from Sun was along the lines of  'go speak to 
>>> your lawyers'.
>>>
>>> We dont really have any layers, so we wont be speaking to them :)
>>
>> The main issue is that Sun insist that we accept liability for 3rd 
>> party use - whilst Mark Shuttleworth has deep enough pockets - we 
>> dont ....
>>
>> We are trying to work with Sun to remove this requirement though.
>
> I don't see how, regardless of what the Sun agreement says, you could 
> be  held any more or less responsible for redistributing java than any 
> other software component you redistribute.  That is, someone would 
> have to successfully sue over damages from a software flaw first and 
> if people could do that, Microsoft would have been out of business 
> many years ago.  And it is bound to be less buggy than the version you 
> do distribute...
>
> Anyway, according the the link I posted (which I can't check myself), 
> you can now use RHEL up2date to get sun java, so Red Hat must have 
> worked something out too. 
So what is the magic command with up2date to get that?  Or what repo is 
it coming from?