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I'm disappointed. I'm really disappointed.

My fear three days ago that Sun's new Distro License for Java is not good enough for Red Hat is confirmed in press reports:

Brian Stevens, Red Hat CTO (quoted by Gavin Clarke, The Register): According to Stevens, Sun's Distro License for Java (DLJ) - launched at this week's JavaOne conference - will reduce companies' legal costs. But does not satisfy the desire for open source Java. He criticized Sun for being reactive, rather than leading, on the issue of open source Java. "They try to do the minimal amount they can get away with," he said.

This is in stark contrast to Simon Phipp's comment on this weblog two days ago:

Simon Phipps, : Actually, the folks at Red Hat were pretty positive about DLJ. But you don't have to wait for them (or Sun). The bits to build a package for Fedora are at jdk-distros - anyone can go make a package and contribute it to their favourite distro.

While I still hold out hope that somehow the Sun JDK will magically show up in Fedora Extras next week, it doesn't seem very likely now.

So I have a choice to make: Do I stay with Fedora Core and wait for the day when Sun JDK is completely open sourced? Or do I switch to Ubuntu where I can get the Sun JDK from their repositories?