On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The more I think about it the more it makes sense to silently install Java > to wherever the user asks to put Freenet. That is, if we're going to > silently install Java anywhere. I wasn't aware there was a 'standard
Java is distributed under license. That license requires that the end user acknowledge Sun's copyright. Silent installation is a copyright violation, it breaks the license. > place' to put Java. Last time I tried installing Java (the SDK as it > happens), the installer asked me where I wanted to put it. As it turned > out it got it wrong, but that's my choice, not the installer's choice. It > suggested J:\Program Files, but I use that for OS-tied applications. It > should have been F:\Devel, but of course the installer had no way of > knowing this without asking me first. -- Jim Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel +44 117 982 0786 mobile +44 797 373 7881 _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
