Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 11:21:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: jdk1.1.6.V98-7-21.tar.gz Message-ID: <XFMail.980806112147.patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> In-Reply-To: <199808061511.JAA12376@mt.sri.com>
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On 06-Aug-98 Nate Williams wrote: >> Hum. I wonder if they have a commercial license, or if we can arrange with >> Sun to distribute it freely on the CD. I'll follow that up. > > A commercial license costs close to a million $$. I talked with someone > whose company actually bought one, and there's no way WC is going to do > that just to distribute the JDK. > > As far as SUN allowing giving dispensation, I gave up on trying to have > any meaningful relationship with them. They promised 6-9 months ago > that we (the FreeBSD java porters) would get access to the JDK1.2 > sources long before they went public. I kept on them for weeks until > they finally quit answering email. Apparently the Linux folks have the > same problem, and their advocate *works* for Javasoft. Well that certainly answers that. Oh well. Thanks, Patrick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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