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No it is not. They must also accept the license when installing the |
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software. The Java team at FreeBSD went through this themselves. I invite |
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you to dig through the archives of freebsd-java@×××××××.org (google may do) |
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and see the debates on the issue. |
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Tom Veldhouse |
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----- Original Message ----- |
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From: "Marko Mikulicic" <marko@××××.org> |
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To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@×××××.net> |
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Cc: <gentoo-dev@g.o> |
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Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 11:36 AM |
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Java SDK Installs -- Sun will be very angry |
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> Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: |
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> > Sun will not be happy that Gentoo installs the Sun JDK (or the Blackdown |
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> > JDK) without displaying the license to the user and forcing them to |
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manually |
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> > accept it. There is risk of bringing down the wrath of Sun onto Gentoo. |
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I |
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> > think the ebuilds should be updated to NOT circumvent these license |
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> > displays. |
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> > |
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> > Tom Veldhouse |
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> > |
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> > _______________________________________________ |
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> > gentoo-dev mailing list |
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> > gentoo-dev@g.o |
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> > http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev |
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> The user must manually download the package. Before downloading |
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> you must accept the license conditions. |
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> Once you have downloaded the file portage is doing exactly the same |
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> steps a human would do while manually installing. |
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> Marko |
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