Re: jdk117v3 package?
On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 01:35:19PM +0100, Vincent Murphy wrote:
> > > It is already in Incoming.
> >
> > It was rejected from it (see Incoming/REJECT), because of some
> > no-distribution clause in the licence.
>
> ok. i'm just wondering how SuSE and anybody else who gives it out on CDs
> gets away with it. when i tell my friends they should try debian instead of
> the usual distributions, everything's peachy until i tell them it doesn't
> include java (we're doing java as part of cs). "what!? you mean i have to
> download the jdk AND netscape!?" the jdk is getting bigger all the time
> too, so the chances of downloading it over slow links are getting slimmer.
>
> i guess this means we need an installer package like we used to have for
> netscape which sucks in the blackdown tarball and sticks the files in all
> the right places. i don't know how to make ordinary packages i'm afraid,
> never mind installer packages. although if anybody wants to take it on i'm
> willing to help in any way that i can.
I don't exactly know what the licence issue is, I just saw the jdk*reason
files where FTP admin said he can't accept it for the named reason.
Contact ftpmaster@debian.org (and debian-legal@lists.debian.org), show
them the whole text of the licence, and ask them what is wrong with it.
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