Starting with freebsd

[Roberto Nunnari]

Joris Verschoor wrote:
> iirc the freebsd foundation arranged some sort of agreement with sun 
> some time ago. Or was this only for an older version?

I believe it was for 1.3.x


> 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
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
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>>> 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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