On Monday 07 April 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > I wonder if this is a bug in the ebuild. sun-jdk used to be > fetch-restricted but it isn't anymore (at least the new versions). If > anyone knows if this change applies for the 1.4-branch too, please > file a bug.
That will never happen. Sun had third party contracts in place with other parties that developed technologies inside previous jdk's. One of the conditions led to the non-redistribution of the jdk. Recent versions of sun-jdk-1.6 (or perhaps portions thereof) are now released under GPL. If Jonathan is to be believed, this took several years of negotiation and re-implementation -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
