Can you give me an ETA? I really want to get 0.5.2 out in the next 24 hours or so.
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 12:27:23PM +0100, Dave Hooper wrote: > > The JRE should be distributed complete and unmodified, i.e. you can't > > just pick the parts you like (as in the current situation). > > Check again. We *do* distribute the JRE complete and unmodified (we use > Sun's own installer; how could we distribute an incomplete JRE?) > > The situation is actually in the same statement though: > > "provided that (i) you distribute the Software complete and unmodified > (unless otherwise specified in the applicable README file) and only > bundled as part of, and for the sole purpose of running, your Programs, " > > We don't distribute JRE "bundled as part of, and for the sole purpose of > running," Freenet > Firstly, there is no way to *ensure* that people downloading freenet will > not use the JRE to run other software- however the statement doesn't > concern what the end user will do, rather it concerns our intentions. > > Our intention is that we distribute JRE for the sole purpose of running > Freenet. > > The bit we're not doing is the 'bundled as part of'. > > In fact we could conceivably bundle only bits of JRE with Freenet > (following the instructions in the "(unless otherwise specified in the > applicable README file)" I pointed at a moment ago) but- I'd rather not > have to write my own JRE installer. > > > > This seems like the only approach is, as Toad suggested, to have two > installers, one which just downloads Freenet, one which downloads Freenet > and the JRE. It's the second point that is critical - we're not allowed > to host an installer that JUST installs JRE, which is exactly what > jre-win32-latest.exe is, and this is how we're in violation of the > licence. > > All makes sense 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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