# submitter clarification needed tags 370296 moreinfo thanks On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 07:13:10AM -0700, Walter Landry wrote: > Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > severity 370296 normal > > thanks > > > > I think that is your interpretation. The paragraph cited never talks > > about "the exact same file". It's an archive of some form, which is > > unpacked and repacked in the deb format. > > > > - no files in the archive is distributed modified. > > - all files in the archive are complete. completeness is guaranteed > > by package dependencies, except for the files declared as > > optional in the README. > > In the README, there is the statement > > The limited set of files from the JDK listed below may be included > in vendor redistributions of the J2SE Runtime Environment. They > cannot be redistributed separately, and must accompany a JRE > distribution. > > This does not seem to allow a separate JDK package, since the JRE > would not _always_ accompany the JDK. Later, the README says
In Debian, a JRE is always accompanying a JDK thru the dependencies, so this point is moot. > If you wish to distribute the JRE rather than the JDK... > > which implies that they do not consider the case of splitting the JDK > from the JRE. I see nothing here that poses any legal problem, what exactly is it that you see as problematic? It is unclear to me what you mean by "splittin g the JDK from the JRE" -- there are two valid installation states at the moment: The set of files for the JRE, or the set of files for the JDK (which happens to be a superset of the JRE, allowing us to not duplicate files in .deb packages). > > We did check with Sun that the resulting packaging conforms to the > > distribution terms. > > If you have a binding statement from Sun that it is OK to enforce > completeness only through package dependencies, then it would be great > if you could put that in the copyright file. This has meanwhile happened. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
