By default Fedora 12 doesn’t install Sun’s Java, and it isn’t in the repository. This isn’t a mistake, in fact I think this is a good decision! Fedora is only dealing with free open source software. You can add other repositories to give you the extra non OSS software you…
This has been around for a while, but I’ve only just stumbled across this as I have been looking at into the licensing of some 3rd party jars we use at work.
GNU have a free implementation of the Sun JavaMail API specification, which means we now have some more GPL’d jars we can use.