Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 11:33:32 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), cracauer@cons.org, chuckr@mat.net, nate@mt.sri.com, osa@etrust.ru, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What about jdk-1.1.6 for FreeBSD-3.0-ELF ? Message-ID: <199810061833.LAA00365@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 Oct 1998 18:06:41 -0000." <199810061806.LAA24958@usr04.primenet.com>
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> > > > Which were you looking at? > > > > > > The one which was announced to the -current list by its author. > > > > The one that contains installation instructions that describe the > > process of either symlinking or installing the shared libraries, so > > that you can run things like 'vi' and 'telnet'? > > Are you talking about the same post for alpha-tester that was posted > to -current, or something more recent, of which I am unaware? Probably the same one that I have been goading Mark into working on for a long time now. 8) > Also, where do those shared libraries come from, if the binaries > are referencing Solaris specific 64 bit off_t symbols (per the > Motif linkage issues)? Wherever you can get them from. > Installing Linux shared libraries are one thing; install Solaris > shared libraries are another; everyone implcitly has a Linux > license, whereas obtaining the Solaris libraries involves > obtaining a License for Solaris, and, if it's the "send us $15 > for the free version" CDROM, *violating* that license. Obtaining the libraries is left as an exercise for the user. They may elect to use Unixware or SCO ODT libraries instead. This is effectively the same as MAME, and all the other emulators that require you to obtain the firmware "some other way". Of curiosity, which clause in the freebie license is this violating? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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