Hi MOTU, I'm an engineer at Caucho, which makes the Resin Java application server. We've recently created a .deb package of our server that we'd like to distribute on the Ubuntu repositories. There's an existing needs-packaging bug for Resin on Lauchpad, #105497.
There are a couple of hitches, though. We dual-license Resin as GPL and a closed source professional (upsell) version with a bit of extra code for added performance/clustering. We'd like to distribute the latter in the non-free repository (similar to flashplugin-nonfree). At the moment, we don't have a package of the GPL version and I'm not sure whether/when we'll be doing that. Part of the rational is that the professional version just reverts to the open source functionality if it doesn't find a license. Another reason for the Pro package is that it contains some platform-dependent code in C, while the pure GPL version contains only Java; we wanted to remove the need for users to compile that additional code. What is the procedure for submitting something to the nonfree repository? The REVU page (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Packages/REVU) that I saw doesn't seem to address this case, but I'm guessing there's some process because of Flash, et al. Can someone point me in the right direction? If I understand correctly, the flashplugin-nonfree package actually downloads the plugin from Adobe. I should note that our package will include the actual binaries. Thanks, Emil ============================================================ Emil Ong Software Engineer Caucho Technology, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blog.caucho.com/ Caucho: Reliable Open Source --> Resin: application server --> Quercus: PHP in Java --> Hessian Web Services -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
