Starting with freebsd

[Phil Helms]

I assume there's some sort of license that allows Linux distros to 
include Java in compiled form.  If that's so, then what's preventing 
FreeBSD from having the same thing?  The difficulty of performing the 
test suite?

Ian G wrote:
> 
> Java *is* ported to FreeBSD, and is these days quite
> snappy about it.  Problem is, there is no permission
> to distribute a port in Package form.  You can quite
> happily make yourself a Package, though.
> 

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Phil Helms
phelms1 at mindspring.com