Hi Guillaume,
> I could be wrong here, as i didn't try to hack the build script, but jsse
> is currently mandatory for building tomcat, even if ssl support is not used
You are right for 3.2.x - you can consider this as a bug in the build
script. It's not hard to fix it - but I don't think it's that important (
since there are workarounds - like downloading the binaries )
In 3.3 it is fixed ( and one of the nightly tests is done without JSSE ).
> thereafter. As long as jsse is not free, i think it should be rendered
> optional for building as well. This way, tomcat introduction would be a lot
> easier for strict licensing policy Linux distributions, such as Debian or
> Mandrake.
> Would this wish be acceptable for next Tomcat release ?
For the next release - absolutely. For 3.2.2 - I think it is still
possible, but I wouldn't be that interested.
BTW, you need JSSE to build - but you don't need to include it in
the binary. ( the same way as you use the GPL gcc to build software with
other licence )
Costin
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