More incorrect deletion of pages on the wiki

[Tommy Trussell]

On 8/1/05, Matt Galvin <matt.t.galvin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/1/05, Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis at kaarsemaker.net> wrote:
> > On ma, 2005-08-01 at 13:22 -0400, Matt Galvin wrote:
> >
> > > *cough* when did Java become a restricted format? *cough*
> >
> > Since all usable tools available for it in hoary are proprietary.
> 
> OK, but its not a restricted format like w32codes or mp3, mp4, libdvdcss, etc...
> 
> It a free programming language. Not open source, but you can still
> download, develop with it and deploy apps written in it for free.

If that is true then the situation has changed since this was written:

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-java-faq/ch5.html

> Basically, this means that if you implement any part of the new 
> 1.2 API or Jini API, even from scratch, Sun will "own" your 
> implementation and you will have to pay them for the right to 
> use it.

Maybe that applies just to the API but it's still not nice.