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On Monday 07 April 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> I wonder if this is a bug in the ebuild. sun-jdk used to be |
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> fetch-restricted but it isn't anymore (at least the new versions). If |
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> anyone knows if this change applies for the 1.4-branch too, please |
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> file a bug. |
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That will never happen. Sun had third party contracts in place with |
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other parties that developed technologies inside previous jdk's. One of |
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the conditions led to the non-redistribution of the jdk. |
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Recent versions of sun-jdk-1.6 (or perhaps portions thereof) are now |
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released under GPL. If Jonathan is to be believed, this took several |
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years of negotiation and re-implementation |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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