On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 01:52:35PM +0100, Toad wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 02:43:16AM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote:
> > The JRE license permits redistribution - exactly what are we violating 
> > (section and paragraph please)?
> 
> READ MY FUCKING EMAIL IAN. Or you could simply try to download the JRE
> from http://java.sun.com/ AND READ THE CLICK THROUGH LICENSE.

I did - your argument is bullshit amateur lawyering, stop acting like 
you know what you are talking about.

If there is the possiblity of an issue I will contact Sun and clarify it 
- we certainly aren't basing any decisions on your expert legal opinion.

Oh, and DON'T SHOUT, its rude.

Ian.

> > 
> > 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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> > Ian Clarke                                              [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Founder, Locutus                                    http://locut.us/
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> Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/
> ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.



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Founder, Locutus                                        http://locut.us/
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