OpenJDK / IcedTea is ###p

[Fernando Cassia]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at>wrote:

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>
> Fedora does not support proprietary software. If you want it, you're on
> your
> own. Fedora won't install it for you, you'll have to do it yourself. But
> Sun Java is one of the least needed pieces of proprietary software now that
> we have OpenJDK/IcedTea.


The JDK is GPL AFAIK, and the JDK includes de JRE. So why can´t  Fedora
package it for the repository?. Just curious.

2006 - GNU/LInux distros get OK to distribute Java
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=3048

Sun woos linux distros with bundle deals
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/28/sun_open_source_software_distros/

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For me, IcedTea is useless, not a single JavaFX demo is able to run on it.

http://javafx.com/samples/

FC
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