On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:48:12AM +0100, Dave Hooper wrote: > > I don't understand where is the problem. What installer are you using? > > We are using Sun's installer for installing Sun Java JRE 1.4.2 > > > And what files from http://freenetproject.org/snapshots/ are in > > violation of Sun Microsystems'copyright? > > According to the information Matthew Toseland presented, the JRE installer > (I can't remember the exact filename but it's symlinked as > jre-win32-latest.exe) > However, reading http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/jre/README suggests that > "JRE is freely distributable". > > So, I don't know. > > In case you're wondering why we're talking about this at all: a while ago, > we didn't mirror the Sun JRE download at freenetproject.org; now we do > that, but apparently the reason there isn't a debian distro of freenet is > because *mirroring Sun's JRE installer is in violation of Sun's licence*. > Or at least this is the impression I received from the previous > discussion. > > So we're now discussing whether we should remove the Sun JRE download from > freenetproject.org; or whether or not this really is a violation of Sun's > licence. > > Anyone: Is that *really* the reason there isn't a debian distro of > freenet? I thought it was rather because Sun JRE was 'non free' in that > it wasn't GPL or Berkeley licenced?
No, there are very many packages in the debian non-free distribution. > > d > > > In the worst case you could only distribute the source code for every > > user to compile but that wouldn't be too nice because java sdk is a big > > download. You can also distribute compiled versions over freenet > > (published "anonymously" :) ) so there will be problems only for the > > first install and not for the updates (make the update program read the > > files from a SSK). > > Naw, that's not what we're talking about. Obviously The Free Net Project > is allowed to distributed its own files ... compiled, source, or > otherwise. The problem relates to the fact that we were distributing > Sun's software (the actual Java Runtime Environment, or JRE, which > includes the Java Virtual Machine, which is essentially what enables your > computer to run programs written in Java, which includes Freenet, which is > what we're all about) > > > Gcj is a solution to produce executable files...but not for some freenet > > features....probably. > > Actually, we are kindof working towards a GCJ Freenet, kindof. Ideally > we'd like to use a 'free' Java runtime but the alternatives seem to not be > as stable or fully-featured as Sun's, so we're relying on Sun JRE for now. > > > d > _______________________________________________ > devl mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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