suns' java leagal issues

[Conrad Meyer]

On Monday 17 November 2008 02:56:11 pm David Timms wrote:
> Conrad Meyer wrote:
> > On Monday 17 November 2008 01:24:13 pm David Timms wrote:
> >> مؤيد السعدي wrote:
> >>> any of the two mean that I can't use package manager to get it
> >>> I can't install netbeans ..etc. from package manager
> >>
> >> What isn't working with open jdk ?
> >> Works for me: yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk
> >> What isn't working for you ?
> >>    (Have you posted a bugzilla.redhat.com bugs ?)
> >>
> >> ...
> >>
> >>> why we don't pack suns' java like them ? is there any legal issue ? and
> >>
> >> We build from source. this includes the jdk.
> >
> > Evidently doesn't include kmod-nvidia...
>
> agreed. though we do compile the kernel module interface from source...
>
> DaveT.

Maybe we could get Mark Shuttleworth to host a RPM repository for libdvdcss, 
java-1.6.0-sun, and kmod-nvidia, since he doesn't seem to care about legal 
issues plaguing much of the world :).

-- 
Conrad Meyer <konrad at tylerc.org>