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.
> >
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