Starting with freebsd

[Joris Verschoor]

iirc the freebsd foundation arranged some sort of agreement with sun 
some time ago. Or was this only for an older version?
What is the state of this? And can we expect a package in the future?
btw, how much does certification cost, and does it have to be payed 
every update release?



Bill Vermillion wrote:

>After replacing Phil Helms with a small shell script on
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>>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?
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>The cost involved.  Without a certified port approved by Sun,
>all other have to compile it themselves and can not redistribute
>the compiled version.
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>>Ian G wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>Phil Helms
>>phelms1 at mindspring.com
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