Re: [gentoo-user] Fetch Restriction: 1 package (1 unsatisfied)

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Monday 07 April 2008, Justin wrote:
> > Why the fetch is restricted?
> > And how to avoid this?
> >  
>
> Fetch it! Why it is fetch restricted? I don't know, but agree with
> you, that it s...!

<sigh>

The jdk from Sun has been around for 10 years. Until very very recent 
versions of 1.6 it has never been GPL'ed, has never been 
redistributable and has *always* required that you go through Sun's 
portal to get it. It used to be worse - back in the day you used to 
have to register to get it. Sun's jre however is made available on 
different terms. And jdk-1.4* will never be GPL'ed.

So, you kids have not spent a whole lot of time on java.sun.com in your 
lives right? And don't read many elog messages either.

Don't like it? Go speak to Sun. Got nothing to do with Gentoo.

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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