Re: Debian package for sun's j2sdk

[Dalibor Topic <robilad@kaffe.org>]

Hallo Juergen,

Juergen Kreileder wrote:
> Dalibor Topic <robilad@kaffe.org> writes:
>
>
> > Pierre Machard wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:57:30PM +0100, Heretik wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > I've just read the Debian GNU/Linux Java FAQ and i installed sun's
> > > > j2sdk on my debian unstable with a lot of difficulties.
> > > >
> > > > I've read in the FAQ that a debian installer for sun's jdk1.4 is
> > > > to be made so i'd like to help doing it.
> > > >
> > > > As i often install debian on some friend's computers, i need a
> > > > simple way to install a single debian package for full java
> > > > toolkit.
> > > >
> > > > So if i can help doing this, please tell me how i could start.
> > >
> > > Matthias Klose already packaged the jdk1.4 from blackdown:
> > > http://swt.cs.tu-berlin.de/~doko/tmp/
> > > http://swt.cs.tu-berlin.de/~doko/tmp/j2re1.4_1.4.1.01-1.1_i386.deb
> > > http://swt.cs.tu-berlin.de/~doko/tmp/j2sdk1.4_1.4.1.01-1.1_i386.deb
> > > No need to reinvent the wheel.
> >
> > If that's the original JDK
>
>
> No, it's the Blackdown J2SE
>
>
> > he *may* be violating the license, since it only allows distribution
> > under specific conditions and *unmodified*. Splitting the original
> > download into a few debian packages can be seen as creating a
> > derived work, i.e. modification of the original work.
>
>
> and *these* debs are OK.

Thanks for setting that straight.

Would it be possible to host them on blackdown mirrors as well? All 
that's available on 
ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/debian/pool/non-free/j/j2se1.4-i386/ for 
example, are a few betas, but no final release.

That would also remove any kind of licensing confusion.

cheers,
dalibor topic