For a while, I've been thinking about the "legalities" of installing software.
Although, GPL does not require it, we would be on the safe side if we ask the user to accept every license for every program when it is installed. For me, something like the behavior we had on CompileProgram with the READMEs are fine: show the user the license and ask Yes-No. I believe it would be enough for Sun and others (RealPlayer, Flash, etc). -- Rafael On 5/17/06, Jonas Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
2006/5/17, Carlo Calica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 5/17/06, Peter Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now, I'm no great fan of Java, but I recognize that it's probably > > something good to have easily and readily available. So will 013 include > > Java, now that Sun is permitting the binaries to be packaged by distros?[0] > > :Peter > > [0] > > http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2006-05/sunflash.20060516.4.xml?cid=155 > > Good question, as a mirror provider I need to research more. Raising > points both PRO and CON seems relevant for this list. As one of my > preferred languages (as in pay the bills), I'd like to suppport Java. > I'd like that too. I've read the Operating System Distributor's License for Java (also known as the "Distro License for Java" or DLJ: http://download.java.net/dlj/DLJ-v1.1.txt ) and what it says is, in short, that this is our software and you may distribute it in any way as long as it's distributed bundled, or as an installable package, with your operating system (which can be any Linux flavor or OpenSolaris). The only hatch, as I see it, is that one must present the license (or at least point to it) for the user, in any way possible, so that they are aware that they are using licensed software. This doesn't has to be a click-through approach, it is mandatory. Is this doable with any of GoboLinux' mechanisms? -- /Jonas _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
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