From owner-freebsd-java Thu Aug 6 08:21:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA20805 for freebsd-java-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 08:21:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iglou.com (iglou2.iglou.com [192.107.41.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA20797 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 08:21:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patrick@cre8tivegroup.com) Received: from [204.255.227.56] (helo=gateway.cre8tivegroup.com) by iglou.com with esmtp (8.9.1/8.9.1) id 0z4Rqk-0001G2-00; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 11:21:06 -0400 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199808061511.JAA12376@mt.sri.com> Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 11:21:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Patrick Gardella To: Nate Williams Subject: Re: jdk1.1.6.V98-7-21.tar.gz Cc: java@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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