multimedia software

On zo, 2005-11-20 at 17:20 +0800, John wrote:
> Marius Bock wrote:
> > Ubuntu and for that mattwe any other Linux distribution are not allowed to
> > redistribute Sun Java so what you asking is not an option.
> 
> I've not checked the licence recently, so I don't know what the specific 
> objections you have. Sun has always agreed to folk distributing jre with 
> their Java apps.
> 
> SuSE does have jre included (but called java).
> 
> Even if Ubuntu can't see its way clear to include Java, then how about a 
> package to download it and set it up?
> 
It's not free software.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ubuntu/licensing/document_view

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Jeroen van Splunder <jeroen-91 at home.nl>