suns' java leagal issues

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Tuesday, 18 November 2008 at 01:12, مؤيد السعدي wrote:
> >>>> why we don't pack suns' java like them ? is there any legal issue ?
> >>> We build from source. this includes the jdk.
> >>
> hello! I'm talking about nonfree branch of rpmfusion
> that's why I'm not posting to fedora-devel
> rpmfusion contains re-distributable binary only stuff like nvidia
> 
> and I hate java and I don't use it (unless when I'm forced to do that) so I
> don't know what bugs does open java have and what it can't run
> I have tried Sarf (http://sarf.sourceforge.net/) it's an opensource
> morphology engine written on Java and it worked but I can't type Arabic in
> text entry boxes and when I past them from other application it did not get
> them

It may be a bug in the application or in the OpenJDK. Why don't you try
filing a bug report?

> I'm not reporting this bug, my point is that some people needs java-sun not
> java-openjdk

AFAIK Sun's JDK is (almost) the same as OpenJDK.

Regards,
R.

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