RE: JAVA on DebianPPC
Hiya
> > You can't redistribute it in binary form unless it's been approved
> > by Sun, since they want to ensure that distributed versions are
> > standards-compliant (and make money in the process - no suprises there).
> >
> > >From an objective point of view, how could Sun have stopped Microsoft
> > from distributing their non-standard JDK (ie. produces non-portable
> > code by default) if they hadn't kept ownership of Java?
>
> Can you redistribute it in source form? If yes, providing a source package can
> be convenient...
>From memory, the FreeBSD port requires you to collect the source files
by manually (since you have to agree to the licensing conditions), to
which the FreeBSD patches are applied before compiling.
Maybe you can do something similar for debian ?
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C-YA
Jon
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