Another Unofficial UbuntuGuide?

[hometoast]

Got it. gentoo does something like this:
emerge sun-jdk
gentoo reports: you must go to sun (url here) download it and copy the
archive to /usr/portage/dev-java/sun-jdk, do that then re-emerge.
 I see how this could become increasingly more complicated on an
international level.
I'm off to go play pokerstars thru wine whilst listening to my ripped mp3s,
in mplayer. gasp!

 On 11/7/05, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
>
> hometoast wrote:
>
> > Wouldn't it be enought to present the user the license upon installation
> > with the options something like, [Yes - install this forsaken codec] [No
> -
> > I'll use ogg]??
>
> No.
>
> > Is this legally different than putting instructions on the web on how to
> > go about doing it manually? ITs not rhetorical, I reall don't know how
> > that is different.
>
> Take Sun Java, for instance (only because this is one I know the details
> of). Sun's license makes it freely available, but you _MUST_ download it
> from the official download site, and you must agree to the license terms.
> Therefore, just presenting the license to the user at install time would
> not be sufficient. Under those conditions, it is perfectly proper to point
> someone to the sun download site. The best any linux distro can do, then
> is to create a package that goes out to Sun and downloads the real thing.
>
> What is legitimate depends entirely on the actual license. For any distro
> to point users to libdvdcss for playing DVDs is almost certainly a
> violation of American laws - yet not a violation in most other places.
> --
> derek
>
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