On Wednesday 16 July 2003 07:05 am, Andrew Rodland wrote:
> Todd Walton wrote:
> |On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Toad wrote:
> |>We cannot make a non-sun-dependant Freenet. You cannot make a package
> |>of Sun Java, maybe not even an installer package. We apparently care
> |>more about the windows leechers who probably won't donate to the project
> |>than the people who actually care about Freenet who probably run Linux
> |>or BSD, for security reasons as much as anything else. We therefore
> |>cannot contribute project time to making Freenet work on GCJ. I suggest
> |>you go put your head in a bucket of sand. It will go away eventually!
> |
> |What's wrong with Blackdown? It's what I run Freenet on. Build 5011
> |seems to be working fine. Does Blackdown conflict with Debian's
> |philosophy as well? Richard?
>
> Blackdown is non-free as well, however there are deb packages of it that
> can legally be downloaded. One good mirror is at ftp.tux.org ("deb
> ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/debian unstable main non-free" and there's a
> matching deb-src line). It's covered by Sun's "derivative" license, but
> I guess somebody got permission to allow it to be downloaded in the
> usual manner, or something.
Doesn't this solve the problem? If Blackdown can be in non-free then can't we
make a freenet deb that depends upon it and still be included? (I think that
would mean it would go into contrib.)
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