java

[David Coldrick]

Color me confused. How does Sun Java come out non-free (capitalized or
not :-))? What's the difference between including NVIDIA drivers and
including Java?

Sure would like to get to the nub of this and find out exactly what
the problem is. I'm no lawyer - and I'm definitely not speaking for
Sun - but my understanding was that the licencing was now less
restrictive to the point that it could indeed be redistributed. For
example, Mandrake now includes it.

Regards,
David


On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 23:32:35 +0100, Oliver Grawert
<hostmaster at grawert.net> wrote:
> hi,
> Am Freitag, den 26.11.2004, 14:04 -0800 schrieb Lloyd D Budd:
> > I have "click installed" other plug-ins in Ubuntu Firefox .  Anyone
> > know why Java does not work that way here ?  Is it a Linux thang ?
> > Ubuntu thang ?
> nope, a sun thing, its their license:
> http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/Java
> 
> ciao
>         oli
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