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Hi, fellow hackers, |
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I’d like to build and run NetBeans on a Gentoo box, but without |
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installing any packages which are binary-only, fetch-restricted and |
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where I have to accept that I may not reverse-engineer them, etc. |
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For dev-java/netbeans-6.5-r4 and dev-java/netbeans-6.7.1, this seems to |
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work fine (but I have only checked the ‘emerge --pretend’ output so far). |
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Slots 6.8 and 6.9 have a dependency on dev-java/jnlp-bin-1.2-r1, which |
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is fetch-restricted and shows discriminating license terms before you |
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can download it (but is marked as licensed under the MPL). The other |
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problematic package, dev-java/jsr67, can be replaced with a package |
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built from source, I assume. See bug 360255 |
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<URL:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=360255>. |
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Slot 6.9 depends on dev-java/jta:0, which is licensed under the |
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‘sun-bcla-jta’ license. I’d like to replace this package with an open |
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source alternative as well. |
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It seems to me that NetBeans is not as free and open source as |
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Sun/Oracle always says… :-p |
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Using NetBeans 6.7 is not that great of a workaround, as we are already |
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at 7.0. If there is interest in this, I’d like to try to spend some time |
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in getting NetBeans built and running on Gentoo without ugly license |
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terms and such. |
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I don’t claim to know the NetBeans code or infrastructure well, so some |
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pointers would be appreciated. Is anyone working on anything like this |
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at the moment? Or does anybody have some hints where/how to start? |
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Thanks! |
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By the way, I’d be happy to meet some of you at LinuxTag 2011 in Berlin |
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(starting tomorrow). I’ll make sure to pay the Gentoo booth a visit. |
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Anyone who’s attending? Or who still needs a ticket? ;-) |
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Nico |
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