java jvm/jdk

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 10:39:58PM -0600, Kapil Thangavelu wrote:

> On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 17:25 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> 
> > Not so far, but we'll most likely look into distribution of the Sun and
> > IBM JVMs.
> 
> fwiw. i believe that the ibm jvm is redistributable, gentoo for example
> redistributes it.

I would be surprised if they did, given the license terms.  This page seems
to indicate otherwise:

[http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/java.xml]
> Both the Sun JDK/JRE and the IBM JDK/JRE are generally faster, but getting
> them is a bit more work, as you are required to read and accept their
> license before downloading (IBM additionally requires you to register).
>
> Our ebuilds for the Sun and IBM JDK/JREs will notify you of where to go to
> download them.

So it sounds like they provide a wrapper of some sort, but the user must
obtain the software for themselves.

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 - mdz