[ubuntu-in] JDK for CS Ubuntu

Onkar Shinde onkarshinde at gmail.com
Thu Oct 11 07:33:41 BST 2007


<snip>
> I would recommend, installing sun-java5-sdk (now that
> it is Free Software (licensed under GPL2; you can
> install the source, as well). Also, there's another
> alternative, known as Blackdown Java. This was
> created, when Sun's java was not under GPL.
</snip>

Wrong statement. Java 5  is not released under GPL. Only upcoming Java 7.
Blackdown is also non-Free AFAIK.


Onkar
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Don't ask why - the reason is the same.



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