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?