Starting with freebsd

[Bill Vermillion]

After replacing Phil Helms with a small shell script on
Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 08:52 , the following appeared on stdout:
> I assume there's some sort of license that allows Linux distros to 
> include Java in compiled form.  If that's so, then what's preventing 
> FreeBSD from having the same thing?  The difficulty of performing the 
> test suite?

The cost involved.  Without a certified port approved by Sun,
all other have to compile it themselves and can not redistribute
the compiled version.



> Ian G wrote:
> >
> >Java *is* ported to FreeBSD, and is these days quite
> >snappy about it.  Problem is, there is no permission
> >to distribute a port in Package form.  You can quite
> >happily make yourself a Package, though.
> >
> 
> -- 
> Phil Helms
> phelms1 at mindspring.com
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