Subject: Re: pkglint warning: possible wip pathname found
To: Roland Illig <roland.illig@gmx.de>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 05/10/2005 16:13:46
On Mon, 9 May 2005, Roland Illig wrote:

> In mk/java-vm.mk there is mentioned a package wip/jdk14. Why isn't this
> package imported into pkgsrc proper?

Licensing.  SCSL is very ... "tainting" in its license terms.  It's the
reason my own jdk12 and jdk13 packages no longer exist in wip, even.

There is supposedly an effort underway to get license terms amenable to
NetBSD binary builds....

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