[Nix-dev] Java license, how to present it for acceptance ?

Eelco Dolstra e.dolstra at tudelft.nl
Mon Feb 2 14:28:24 CET 2009


Hi,

Marc Weber wrote:

> http://download.java.net/dlj/DLJ-FAQ.txt
> says "Present for acceptance end user licenses"
> [..]
> 
> "[..] A click-through mechanism is the preferred way to do this [..]
> 
> [..] For instance, on
> Debian and derivative distributions, you could configure the
> package so that if the debconf key for accepting the DLJ has not
> been pre-accepted, the installation will be canceled if the
> license cannot be presented [..] "
> 
> So do we need a 
> 
>   accecpJavaJREJDKLicense = true;
> 
> setting in config.nix ?

No, we should drop the Sun Java distribution and switch to OpenJDK.

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