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Date:      Fri, 25 Jan 2002 15:14:27 -0800
From:      David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
To:        Simon Siemonsma <simon.freebsd@hccnet.nl>
Cc:        igorr@speechpro.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fwd: Re: java in 4.5?
Message-ID:  <20020125151427.A71107@HAL9000.wox.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020125191828.4496E68@fia168-94.dsl.hccnet.nl>; from simon.freebsd@hccnet.nl on Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 08:18:27PM %2B0100
References:  <20020124184006.67A66337@fia168-94.dsl.hccnet.nl> <20020125074338.GB72464@sysadm.stc> <20020125191828.4496E68@fia168-94.dsl.hccnet.nl>

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Thus spake Simon Siemonsma <simon.freebsd@hccnet.nl>:
> With ports you normally just type make install in the ports directory and it 
> installs. As far as I understood it is different with the Java port. That is 
> way I used the word strange, because it is different from the other ports.

That is because Sun has a restrictive license for the source code.
The binary package, when it has passed Sun's JCK tests, will not
suffer from that problem.

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