suns' java leagal issues

[Conrad Meyer]

On Monday 17 November 2008 04:12:07 pm مؤيد السعدي wrote:
> >>>> why we don't pack suns' java like them ? is there any legal issue ?
> >
> > and
> >
> >>> 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
>
> I'm not reporting this bug, my point is that some people needs java-sun not
> java-openjdk
>
> and we should give people the freedom to choose
>
> can any one tell me why ? which term of the EULA ... ? that we can't
> redistribute a well-packaged rpm for sun's java

Just a guess -- I'd guess there's a either a "no redistribution" 
or "non-commercial only" redistribution clause, either of which is a no go.

-- 
Conrad Meyer <konrad at tylerc.org>