Re: Installing Java on CentOS 5

[Craig White <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 15:19 -0500, R P Herrold wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, Les Mikesell wrote:
> 
> > Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> >> Les Mikesell wrote:
> >>> On the other hand, redistribution is permitted...
> 
> >> Yeah, but there's still that indemnification clause in the Distribution
> >> License. The FAQ says that this really doesn't matter, the License says
> >> otherwise. And I tend to "believe" Licenses, because that's what you
> >> have ...
> 
> > There aren't a lot of lawsuits over software because all 
> > responsibilities are always disclaimed away anyway -
> 
> One is sufficient to impair CentOS; Les, make a contribution 
> of $10k$ and we'll get a formal opinion.  If that is 
> unappealing, tender along a update patch for the bottom of the 
> CentOS wiki page Java installation instructions (the top 
> still works just fine). Absent deeds, words are empty.
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yeah but thank goodness, we can have plenty of them (words)
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> > Anyway - as long as the opennms guys have it, it doesn't matter.
> 
> Thre is plenty of trolling and people offering casual legal 
> opinions at 24x7 in debian-legal for many years, and 
> presently in fedora-adv for the last couple days.
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fedora-adv ? translation ?

Craig

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