Starting with freebsd

[Bill Vermillion]

It's Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 17:11 . I'm in a small dim room with
doors labeled "Dungeon" and "Forbidden". There is noise, the door
marked Dungeon flies open and Joris Verschoor SHOUTS:

> 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?

That was for an older version. Each new version requires a
complete testing and then Sun giving it's approval.

I just checked the freebsdfoundation.org site and the version
that is available as a binary download from there is 1.3.1.

It also says it has been 'certified and tested' to run on FreeBSD 4.8.
But it also notes that it does NOT work on 5.x 'due to a binary
compatibility issue' but that they are working on it.


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