multimedia software

Jeroen van Splunder wrote:
> On zo, 2005-11-20 at 17:20 +0800, John wrote:
> 
>>Marius Bock wrote:
>>
>>>Ubuntu and for that mattwe any other Linux distribution are not allowed to
>>>redistribute Sun Java so what you asking is not an option.
>>
>>I've not checked the licence recently, so I don't know what the specific 
>>objections you have. Sun has always agreed to folk distributing jre with 
>>their Java apps.
>>
>>SuSE does have jre included (but called java).
>>
>>Even if Ubuntu can't see its way clear to include Java, then how about a 
>>package to download it and set it up?
>>
> 
> It's not free software.

Neither is the HAL for my atheros wireless card that works in Breezy
Neither is the firmware for my prism54 wireless network card, and that 
works in Warty.


Besides, not being free software doesn't prevent the provision of a 
package to acquire it by download.