multimedia software

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.

Sun approves you distributing for a _specific_ java app.  "Linux" can hardly
qualify.
> 
> SuSE does have jre included (but called java).

Presumably not the Sun JRE, then.
> 
> Even if Ubuntu can't see its way clear to include Java, then how about a
> package to download it and set it up?

iirc, that's java-package.
-- 
derek