On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 12:29:15PM -0500, Tom Kaitchuck wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 July 2003 07:05 am, Andrew Rodland wrote:
> > Todd Walton wrote:
> > |On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Toad wrote:
> > |>We cannot make a non-sun-dependant Freenet. You cannot make a package
> > |>of Sun Java, maybe not even an installer package. We apparently care
> > |>more about the windows leechers who probably won't donate to the project
> > |>than the people who actually care about Freenet who probably run Linux
> > |>or BSD, for security reasons as much as anything else. We therefore
> > |>cannot contribute project time to making Freenet work on GCJ. I suggest
> > |>you go put your head in a bucket of sand. It will go away eventually!
> > |
> > |What's wrong with Blackdown? It's what I run Freenet on. Build 5011
> > |seems to be working fine. Does Blackdown conflict with Debian's
> > |philosophy as well? Richard?
> >
> > Blackdown is non-free as well, however there are deb packages of it that
> > can legally be downloaded. One good mirror is at ftp.tux.org ("deb
> > ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/debian unstable main non-free" and there's a
> > matching deb-src line). It's covered by Sun's "derivative" license, but
> > I guess somebody got permission to allow it to be downloaded in the
> > usual manner, or something.
>
> Doesn't this solve the problem? If Blackdown can be in non-free then can't we
> make a freenet deb that depends upon it and still be included? (I think that
> would mean it would go into contrib.)I don't think blackdown can be in non-free without further mirroring permissions and so on from Sun. It's not currently part of debian non-free IIRC. -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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