The JRE license permits redistribution - exactly what are we violating (section and paragraph please)?
Ian. On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 09:16:26AM +0100, Dave Hooper wrote: > As I understand it, yes, we're blatantly in violation, but bundling the > JRE into the installer is also in violation. Again, as I understand it, > if we bundle JRE with Freenet, we should try to ensure that it is not > usable by other applications. > > I can see no way of achieving this. If indeed it is acceptable to bundle > the JRE installer inside a 'heavy installer' then what's preventing any > casual user downloading the heavy installer just for the JRE? I think > *this* is what Sun really wants to prevent. I believe that if we bundle > Sun JRE we *cannot* use Sun's JRE installer. > > The only solutions I see are to produce our own installer for JRE (not > fun, no thank you) or just scrap the automatic download of the JRE and > request that the users go to java.sun.com and download it themselves. > > And then we're back where we started with a user-unfriendly installer. > > <shrug> > > d > > > The best option is probably for the lite installer to download and run > > the heavy installer if it detects that the user does not have the JRE > > installed. > > > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 02:34:47AM +0100, toad wrote: > >> Please produce a freenet-wininstall.exe variation that includes the JRE, > >> in the same file. Then delete the illegal files > >> j2re-1_4_1_02-windows-i586-i.exe, j2re-1_4_1_03-windows-i586-i.exe and > >> jre-win32-latest.exe from http://freenetproject.org/snapshots/ > >> > >> Then email me to say you have done it. I will delete the files if you > >> will just deal with the wininstallers. > >> > >> You may want to make a wininstaller version that does not include the > >> JRE, we can link to both versions. > >> > >> This is a release blocker, although there are a few others. > >> -- > >> Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ > >> ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. > > > > > > > > -- > > Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ > > ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. > > > > _______________________________________________ > devl mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl -- Ian Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coordinator, The Freenet Project http://freenetproject.org/ Founder, Locutus http://locut.us/ Personal Homepage http://locut.us/ian/
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