On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 01:35:19PM +0100, Vincent Murphy 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.
I don't exactly know what the licence issue is, I just saw the jdk*reason files where FTP admin said he can't accept it for the named reason. Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (and debian-legal@lists.debian.org), show them the whole text of the licence, and ask them what is wrong with it. -- enJoy -*/\*- http://jagor.srce.hr/~jrodin/
