> Hello, Hi Vincent, > > Gabriele Giacone wrote: >> I'm packaging sweethome3d [1], a java application. Ok, so my next email will start with: 'Hello, I'm packaging a java application and some libraries' :)
> The final jar can only contain the libraries for which the source code > is in the original tarball. You'll have to remove all the binary .jars > from the original tarball, as they are sourceless and therefore cannot > be distributed by Debian, use the libraries already available for > Debian, and package the ones which are necessary but not yet in Debian. > You must not use already packaged binaries. Never. > I know this sounds really painful (and it is) but this is the main > drawback (and advantage as well) of Java: it is so easy to distribute > libraries in the binary form that people forget that you don't have > right to distribute a .jar file under GPL/LGPL without providing the > appropriate source. Go fish for the latter ! Thanks for having remembered me the right way. > Welcome to the joy of Java packaging ;-)... I'll package and publish it on mentors and I will ask a review to this ml. Thanks. Cheers, Gabriele -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
