From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GM7eH-0003sI-34 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 09 Sep 2006 18:33:49 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k89IXPg9022794; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 18:33:25 GMT Received: from mail.tassoneent.com (tassoneent.com [64.34.163.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k89IXOPg025671 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 18:33:24 GMT Received: from [172.21.3.102] (adsl-63-200-91-249.dsl.scrm01.pacbell.net [63.200.91.249]) by mail.tassoneent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BA96A90 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 11:33:22 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-java] Re: Sun JDK fetching From: Greg Tassone To: gentoo-java@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: <42813AE2.7060906@gentoo.org> <1115826068.4333.233901247@webmail.messagingengine.com> <42825462.7020200@fastmail.fm> <1115890826.16844.233965396@webmail.messagingengine.com> <42833248.3000909@kaffe.org> <1115906306.11150.233981021@webmail.messagingengine.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-pS/BT7gQPs9n63ow1xU/" Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 11:33:22 -0700 Message-Id: <1157826802.21666.15.camel@greg.tassoneent.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-java@gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 X-Archives-Salt: 5e483bd7-790f-433f-8d98-ed9f281d7fdf X-Archives-Hash: 4c2dc5c48cd7d86dec4c5f4dd12307b6 --=-pS/BT7gQPs9n63ow1xU/ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Great response... thanks for taking the time -- I was about to do so myself. On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 08:49 -0700, David Herron wrote: > Actually we are offering Sun's JDK under a free license that allows =20 > any Solaris or Linux distribution to redistribute the binary. I've =20 > been working with Joshua and Karl to help/advise them on integrating =20 > Sun's JDK with Gentoo under that new license. Thanks for assisting the Gentoo distro (and therefore all of us) in this way. > I just read the email thread you're responding =20 > to, and it was a painful walk down memory lane. ... =20 > Hopefully between the DLJ license and the imminent =20 > beginning for open source Java, that we can put all the past pain =20 > behind us. I hope *strongly* for the same. I observe a huge amount of idealogical-based dislike of the Java platform/language in the Open Source world. IMO, the overarching reason for this is due to current licensing issues. Without commenting on the merits of that view, I eagerly hope for the day I can have a straight-forward, unencumbered technical discussion with such folks on the massive value of Java. At least then our technical flame-wars can be based on the appropriate topic. ;-) Here's to the future. I hope Sun walks openly and properly into this new era (chooses a good OSI license, etc.) within the next month or two. If so, IMHO, Java will become a dominating force across the Open Source world as it has in other walks of life. ~ Greg --=-pS/BT7gQPs9n63ow1xU/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBFAwjyaI3pdOrDO40RAgX2AKDAYm4vvgAZ8qLN9QgnosEWznbaOQCcCkJn 7T81wBJbSc+D9lB0ORHkMQU= =8uQh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-pS/BT7gQPs9n63ow1xU/-- -- gentoo-java@gentoo.org mailing list