Robert Moskowitz wrote: > 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? According to: http://apps.byuh.edu/olelo/?p=14 it is up2date java-1.5.0-sun-devel -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com