Stefan Held wrote:
http://www.sun.com/software/communitysource/j2se/java2/download.xml You only need this aggrement to build your own java version from the source and distribute it. Exactly like you need it for Firefox.
This is not a Free software license which is a requirement for inclusion in Fedora. See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives and http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Legal. Just a week or so back I attended a Sun presentation on open source Java where they admitted to not having complete source code under a Free software license since portions of code is licensed by Sun from other vendors. Like I said the tentative timeline to remove that encumbrances is March 2007.
This license was nessesary because M$ tried to sell Java as theire own creation (M$ JVM). Please do not cry out FUD.
You misunderstood. Major portions of Sun Java is under a GPL+classpath exception license currently. See https://openjdk.dev.java.net/ However there are portions of it still not available a Free software license due to it being licensed from other vendors.
http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml Nice to see that other projects managed this .....
Fedora Project is not willing to negotiate agreements to include proprietary software unlike the FreeBSD foundation.
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 30. Nov 01:43 /etc/alternatives/java -> /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.5.0-sun/bin/java I am not exactly sure how such answers help .......
If you already knew about alternatives, thats the extend of support we can currently provide for other JVM's.
Rahul