Re: sun-jdk15 package (Re: [rock-sm] 2005051914271412443stf new)

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From: "Thomas "fake" Jakobi" <fake-o+BlaNWM+K2Y/[email protected]>
To: "ROCK Development Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 11:06 AM
Subject: Re: [rock-devel] sun-jdk15 package (Re: [rock-sm] 
2005051914271412443stf new)


> hi list, clifford,
>
> Clifford Wolf wrote:
>
>> to avoid this package beeing built per default? Or do we have permission 
>> the repackage the sun jdk15 in our default distributions?
>
> no, we aren't, so yes, O would be correct.

To be precise, the software license allows " [..] to reproduce and use
internally Software complete and unmodified for the sole
purpose of running Programs."
We are not allowed to redistribute the software, though, so O is indeed a 
better choice.

>
>>Also it seams to me as if
>>[R] + x86
>>is missing (this is an x86 only package, isn't it?)
>>
> yes, but there are other versions from blackdown for sparc, powerpc and 
> more.

Yes it's x86-only. I'll change this too.

>
>>Besides that, does it really make sense to create a new repository for 
>>this
>>package? Is there more to come?
>>
> yes, definitely! think jakarta-tomcat, ant, and several jdbc packages for 
> mysql, postgres, and so on...

At least the sun-jre from my side, maybe also the 1.4 versions. I think 
every package written in Java should also go here.

Regards,
    Stefan Fiedler