Re: [gentoo-java] Re: Sun JDK fetching

[Greg Tassone]

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
> any Solaris or Linux distribution to redistribute the binary.  I've
> been working with Joshua and Karl to help/advise them on integrating
> 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
> to, and it was a painful walk down memory lane.  ...
> Hopefully between the DLJ license and the imminent
> beginning for open source Java, that we can put all the past pain
> 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