[ILUG] The old CD thread again {RHEL this time}

[Conor Daly]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 04:50:09PM -0700 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Rick Moen thought:
> 
> Since I figure I have your virtual ear, and you might have some RHEL n
> (for various values of n) CDs handy, didn't RHEL at least use to come
> with java-n.n.n-bea and java-n.n.n-ibm JRE packages -- where those firms
> notoriously did _not_ grant the public any right of redistribution in
> their JRE software?  I might have misheard -- or those might have been 
> dropped after RHAS 2.1.

Mounting RHEL 3 CD9 - "extras", I find an ls of Redhat/RPMS returns:

IBMJava2-JRE-1.4.1-8.i386.rpm 
IBMJava2-SDK-1.4.1-9.i386.rpm
jrockit-j2se-8.1.1.1-2.i386.rpm

These have 'Commercial' in the License field of an 'rpm -qpi' output.  I
presume these are what you are talking about and that CD9 is not
redistributable...  I'm not sure about CD8 - "documentation" but there's
mention of 'redistributable' in the "Open Publication" 'License' file on
the CD.
 
Conor
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