Steve Byrne wrote:
>
> Uncle George writes:
> > Bec of the limited space & bandwidth, I was thinking of providing a
> > redhat rpm for the various alpha platforms ( 21064, 21164, and the
> > 21164a processors ). I'd like to create the rpm, and submit the rpm to
> > redhat for their inclusion into the jewel set distribution.
> > Am i violating the bin license, by doing so. I suppose if someone else
> > were to package the bins, and submitted the RPM to redhat they would be
> > safe, and unencumbered by the license.
>
> If you use the bins, no matter who built them, you are encumbered. Read the
> LICENSE file. You can package and distribute JRE w/o problems, but for a
> commercial product like RedHat, I think you need a commercial license (and now
> that RedHat has a new influx of big name investor money, this shouldn't be a
> big deal to pay for :-) . It's really something that RedHat and and Sun need
> to work out.
>
Agreed, it would be nice if Sun and RedHat got their heads together on
this one. But in the meantime, distributing it seperately from RedHat
isn't in breach of the license (is it?).
Whenever a distribution is made, the RPMs for the various platforms
could be posted too. I would also encourage other package formats, if
there are volunteers to maintain them.
I envision there being packages such as :-
jdk-1.1.6v4a-glibc.i386.rpm
jdk-1.1.6v4a-libc5.i386.rpm
jre-1.1.6v4a-glibc.i386.rpm
jre-1.1.6v4a-libc5.i386.rpm
i18n-1.1.6v4a-glibc.i386.rpm
i18n-1.1.6v4a-libc5.i386.rpm
rt-1.1.6v4a-glibc.i386.rpm
rt-1.1.6v4a-libc5.i386.rpm
(+ similar for .ppc.rpm, .sparc.rpm etc)
I guess the spec file can be shared across platforms, but a seperate
spec file will probably be required for each variation
(jdk/jre/i18n/rt). Anyone with me?
> Why don't you make your distribution available so that Blackdown can cause it
> to be mirrored around the world like the other Linux JDK's? This means that
> your site only pays for the one upload to Blackdown, it gets wide distribution,
> and you don't have to keep the files on your ISP (the restrictive ISP from
> Hell, if I remember right). No legal issues. If you want to package
> things as an RPM and upload that too, that would be fine.
--
Ross
