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
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