Re: jdk117v3 package?

[Vincent Murphy <theDon@cs.ucc.ie>]

On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 11:42:21AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > It is already in Incoming.
>
> It was rejected from it (see Incoming/REJECT), because of some
> no-distribution clause in the licence.

 ok.  i'm just wondering how SuSE and anybody else who gives it out on CDs
gets away with it.  when i tell my friends they should try debian instead of
the usual distributions, everything's peachy until i tell them it doesn't
include java (we're doing java as part of cs).  "what!?  you mean i have to
download the jdk AND netscape!?"  the jdk is getting bigger all the time
too, so the chances of downloading it over slow links are getting slimmer.

 i guess this means we need an installer package like we used to have for
netscape which sucks in the blackdown tarball and sticks the files in all
the right places.  i don't know how to make ordinary  packages i'm afraid,
never mind installer packages.  although if anybody wants to take it on i'm
willing to help in any way that i can.

-vinny

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