suns' java leagal issues

[Hans de Goede]

manuel wolfshant wrote:
> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
>>
>>
>> AFAIK Sun's JDK is (almost) the same as OpenJDK.
>>   
> "almost" but not identical. A colleague of mine cannot use Yahoo Games
> with openjdk-plugin from EPEL, while it works without problems with
> Sun's (rebuilt by me using jpackage.org
> java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0.10-1jpp.nosrc.rpm)
> 

It does not matter:
1) We do not replace Fedora packages
2) We do not replace Fedora packages
3) Yes we could use alternatives, but that still feels wrong, as we would be 
promoting a closed solution where a very viable open solution exits
4) ok, 3 is debatable, but we do not have a license allowing us to ship sun's 
jdk, *end of discussion*

Regards,

Hans