Firefox and Java on CentOS 4.1

[mailing-lists at hughesjr.com (Johnny Hughes)]

On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 11:39 -0700, Alan Hodgson wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 08:49:12PM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote:
> > That just doesn't make sense. while I understand this is the place we 
> > find ourselves, it doesn't make sense that one OSS platform cannot do a 
> > simple thing with another OSS platform.
> 
> Ah, if only Java were OSS.

Alan has pointed out ... and I will reiterate it, just in case anyone
doesn't know.

Java is _NOT_ open source ... and it can not be redistribute with out a
license from Sun.  We can not distribute it via a free distro.

MP3 also requires a royalty payment for every player distributed, and
therefore can not be distribute by CentOS. 

While I personally am not happy about either of those situations, we
(The CentOS Project) do follow the laws for distribution of software.
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