On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 09:52:23AM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 12:27:23PM +0100, Dave Hooper wrote: > > 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. > > I simply don't understand this argument, and it flies in the face of > common sense that Sun would have any objection to what we are currently > doing.
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