Professor Lea, I'm interested in packaging your util.concurrent java library for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. I'm writing to let you know, and to ask a few questions.
First, your documentation mentions that a few of the classes use copyrighted code from SUN. I'd like to know if you have had any indication from SUN that it is legal to distribute these files. To protect the individuals and organizations who donate mirror space from liability, Debian won't distribute such code without explicit permission. If SUN won't give it, I'll remove those classes. Next, parts of your library depend on parts of the Java2 API. Debian only includes software the meets the Debian Free Software Guidlines (http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidlines), and currently there is no Java2 runtime that does so. Thus the package will depend on something not in the main Debian distribution, and have to be in the "contrib" section of the archive. An alternative would be to leave out the parts of the library that require Java2, but I don't know if this would be satisfactory to potential users. I'll follow your guidance on this issue. I'm sure these points can be resolved without too much trouble. I'd also like to thank you for creating such high quality free software. -- Steven Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shannon's Observation: Nothing is so frustrating as a bad situation that is beginning to improve. Get my GnuPG public key at: http://www.blckknght.org/publickey.asc Fingerprint: 272A 3EC8 52CE F22B F745 775E 5292 F743 EBD5 936B
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