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On Monday 07 April 2008, Justin wrote: |
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> > Why the fetch is restricted? |
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> > And how to avoid this? |
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> > |
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> Fetch it! Why it is fetch restricted? I don't know, but agree with |
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> you, that it s...! |
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<sigh> |
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The jdk from Sun has been around for 10 years. Until very very recent |
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versions of 1.6 it has never been GPL'ed, has never been |
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redistributable and has *always* required that you go through Sun's |
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portal to get it. It used to be worse - back in the day you used to |
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have to register to get it. Sun's jre however is made available on |
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different terms. And jdk-1.4* will never be GPL'ed. |
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So, you kids have not spent a whole lot of time on java.sun.com in your |
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lives right? And don't read many elog messages either. |
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Don't like it? Go speak to Sun. Got nothing to do with Gentoo. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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