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sun-java5 package

  1. Bug #59987
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 59987

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Matthias Klose (doko) wrote : Re: [Bug 59987] Re: sun-java5-jdk should ask to set itself as the default upon installation

Frank Niedermann schrieb:
> Matthias Klose wrote:
>> further, we don't support sun-java5 in main, so the best solution
>> is to prefer the supported option.
>
> What is the reason for that?

see http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu

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Free in the sense of giving you rights of Software Freedom, but you
probably knew that already! Unlike many of the other commercial
distributions in the free and open source world, the Ubuntu team really
does believe that Free software should be free of software licencing
charges.

and in more detail http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/licensing