On 12/2/05, Miguel A Paraz <mparaz@???> wrote:
> On 12/2/05, Zak B. Elep <zakame@???> wrote:
> > Yep, I've heard of this on #ubuntu-devel, I think we might be seeing
> > this included in Dapper :)
>
> How does Ubuntu overcome the Sun (and its IBM licensee) license
> restriction for the JRE? It's required for this product.
I'm not yet very familiar with what the Ubuntu equivalent for Debian's
contrib is (I'm just guessing but is it universe?), but I think it
will work this way... 'contrib' in Debian is a group of DFSG-free
software that needs non-free software to run or build. Debian/Ubuntu
can (re)distribute software in 'contrib' but since the software needed
to run/compile them is not free, they end up in contrib.
So in the case of most software that needs Sun's JRE/JDK, you will
first need to package a .deb (using the make-jpkg utility and it's
relatively easy) for the JRE/JDK and install that, then install the
package that needs a JRE (in this case FDS).
Just replace contrib with the right name for the case of Ubuntu. :)
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