David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> writes: > At work, we've just decided all our new hosting is Ubuntu 10.04 using > Sun Java. This was fine until Oracle declded to rescind the distributor > licenses. We do plan to move to OpenJDK, but only after the utmost > testing.
> In the meantime, I'm hand-rolling a deb based on the Oracle download. > This project has attracted a few interested emails, so I'd like to make > my work publicly available - even if I can't distribute a deb, I'd > certainly like to make my recipe available for people in the same boat > as me.[*] While this doesn't directly solve your problem, the Debian package java-package was designed to do exactly what you're doing and is therefore under a clear license in that respect. Maybe it's worth taking a look at it and seeing if it can be resurrected? It unfortunately hasn't been maintained for more than three years, and had known bugs (you have to get it from oldstable at this point), but it may have more of a framework for doing the thing that you're doing. It's what everyone was using before the Sun JDK could be distributed in non-free. The advantage of java-package is that it's set up to be a packagable and redistributable piece of software, rather than having to distribute the packaging separately and then explain to people how to glue that together with the Oracle download. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ehvlfrno....@windlord.stanford.edu
