Bug#620010: oracle-java7: Developper preview available !

[tony mancill]

Hi Martin:

The license [1] I see when I go to that page is so restrictive as to
prevent the package from being considered for Debian (even the non-free
archive).  Here is an excerpt of the license a developer would have to
accept to download jdk7:

2.0 LIMITED LICENSE

2.1 Source Code. Sun grants to Licensee, a non-exclusive,
non-transferable, royalty-free and limited license to view the source
code portions of the Licensed Software internally for the purposes of
evaluation only.

2.2 Binary Code. Sun grants to Licensee, a non-exclusive,
non-transferable, royalty-free and limited license to use the binary
code portions of the Licensed Software internally for the purposes of
evaluation only.

2.3 No licenses are granted to Licensee for any other purposes, Licensee
may not sell, rent, loan or otherwise encumber or transfer Licensed
Software in whole or in part, to any third party.

3.0 LICENSE RESTRICTIONS

3.1 Licensee may not duplicate Licensed Software other than for a single
copy of Licensed Software for archival purposes only. Licensee agrees to
reproduce any copyright and other proprietary right notices on any such
copy.

(snip)

It continues on from that point with more non-DFSG clauses.  So, it
appears that individual developers may download for their own
curiosity/evaluation, but there won't be a package in the archive based
on the snapshot release.

Cheers,
tony

[1] http://jdk7.java.net/license.txt

On 03/31/2011 02:42 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> Java maintainers, can you please comment on this request (and reassign
> the bug).
> 
> * mourad <newbeewan at nativobject.net> [2011-03-29 11:25]:
>> Package: oracle-java7
>> Version: wnpp
>> Severity: wishlist
>>
>> Developper preview is available here : http://download.java.net/jdk7/
>>
>> It is an RC quality java 7, near the final one !
>>
>> Could you considere to package it and make it available in experimental repo ?
>>
>> Thanks for taking care about that issue !
>>
>> Best Regards
>>
>> Mourad
>>
>>
>>
>> -- System Information:
>> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
>>   APT prefers testing
>>   APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
>> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>>
>> Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
>> Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
>> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>>
> 


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