suns' java leagal issues

[Ray Van Dolson]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 06:08:13PM -0800, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> --- On Mon, 11/17/08, Conrad Meyer wrote:
> > On Monday 17 November 2008 05:53:21 pm Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > > (iii)
> > > you do not distribute additional software intended to
> > > replace any component(s) of the Software,
> > >
> > >
> > > We are not going to distribute additional software to
> > replace
> > > Sun's Java.
> > 
> > We already ship java-1.6.0-openjdk and gcj.
> > 
> 
> Attention. *We* do not ship those at *rpmfusion*. They are shipped by
> Fedora. We are a different entity.
> 
> Let's hear what other folks will say...
> 
> -oget
> 

Any links to discussion on Ubuntu mailing lists?  Obviously they felt
safe enough to go ahead with it... Has Sun sued them?

Currently I take the jpackage nosrc RPM's, build RPM's against those
and redistribute internally.

Ray