From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 24 11:36:31 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DF9F1065679 for ; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:36:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from unixmania@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f227.google.com (mail-fx0-f227.google.com [209.85.220.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BACD48FC08 for ; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:36:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm27 with SMTP id 27so8254610fxm.3 for ; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:36:29 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=fegIgSuxent0S9U4v6G9maZFL/e+kLJWWqoajAHeiUw=; b=mz/0roiVmadAAoLXXAynYRINhiRKZwsazOrRWT6JPm8tJ9wfolQRhrIx194ngCK0r2 pSI5085cTnXNFFBppDLFVUl+Ng5t51NO/2aeCsbN7VtLfljqq0dQlnWlfTrIssJwq5uL cyXGu+ulrGW+gbnRuivlBfDj+EOobWBiqEWy8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=hxN2jZmy9mDQZG3sDTMeHks7uvTdrGmaIb3pUqXVrzmbn9q4rcDzpErcapCrb0XLVM 04iPCYjEFX+Dt3iLaKo325u02INIJkC0oXm0qRa/HvcP0qqIKeQsIU0rHWSqnww0Q83D uYCcaJ8Z5K8PpvYk8MEMrQp2ekcYucB0L1lUM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.139.89 with SMTP id s25mr1146771hbs.113.1261654588172; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:36:28 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <91b92520912240304n326e09celd24a532fd1e302f0@mail.gmail.com> References: <91b92520912240304n326e09celd24a532fd1e302f0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:36:28 -0200 Message-ID: From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" To: Sandra Kachelmann Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing java X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:36:31 -0000 On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Sandra Kachelmann wrote: > Today I had the pleasure to install some java port and well it was > quite frustrating. I still have to download all the distfiles > manually. Isn't FreeBSD now officially supported by Sun? No, Sun does not officially support FreeBSD. The official Java port for FreeBSD is provided by the FreeBSD foundation. Take a look at http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml and the corresponding ports: /usr/ports/java/diablo-jdk15 /usr/ports/java/diablo-jdk16 /usr/ports/java/diablo-jre15 /usr/ports/java/diablo-jre16 > Is it really > still necessary to manually fetch the distfiles or is this something > that could be looked at again? Yes, if you want to build it from the sources. This limitation is imposed by the Java license to which FreeBSD must be compliant. > What if the port would just point to the distfiles and don't actually > host them on any FreeBSD mirror. Wouldn't that be legal? The ports already points you to the distfiles but the license terms require explicit acceptance by the user before downloading the files. > I mean a link > some site that provides instruction on how to build an atomic bomb is > still legal as well, right? It would depend on the license terms of the atomic bomb. :-) > If so I could simply upload the distfiles > to some russian FTP server and nobody but Sun would really care. You can upload them to some FTP server in *any* country. It would not be legal, anyway. The FreeBSD project is not whiling to be sued by Sun. And yes, they *do* care. > This is so annyoing: > > - Manually fetch > - Login to some bloated sun.com site > > ARGHH!!! Send your complaints, politely, to Sun. FreeBSD is just another victim in this case. -- My preferred quotation of Robert Louis Stevenson is "You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs". Not because I like the omelettes, but because I like the sound of eggs being broken.