On binary JDK packages (was: Re: Starting with freebsd)

[Panagiotis Astithas]

Phil Helms wrote:
> 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?

The last news on that front can be found here:

http://www.javalobby.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=16511&tstart=0
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/01/06/HNfreebsdsun_1.html

I don't know if there has been any progress on this, after Sun's 
licensing restructuring.

Panagiotis