[El] About packaging JAI

[Ralph Apel]

Hi Mathieu,

JRL/JDL are not listed at http://www.opensource.org/licenses/index.html

I do not know how udig people do, but I would not distribute neither
sources nor binaries for JAI before Oracle possibly decides to change
the model...

The .src.rpm should be rebuilt "on install" from sources fetched by the
final user (i.e. not by us). But of course we won't force that user to
download the sources from svn at each and every build attempt. That is
why a fetch script should be provided, but after that failing - for
whatever a reason - proceed with a source tarball possibly present
already in ./SOURCES 

I will be able to upload a "no-source" "source-RPM" .-(  soon.

Cheers
Ralph

On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 10:05 +0100, Mathieu Baudier wrote:
> Hi Ralph,
> 
> > I'd like to share my conclusions about packaging of Java Advanced
> > Imaging:
> 
> thanks for looking at this, this is indeed the basis of almost
> everything Java GIS...
> 
> > - source code is available, but may not be freely distributed (JRL, JDL)
> 
> are binary distributable?
> 
> If I'm not mistaken, the uDig project does include a JRE with JAI in
> its distributions, and I always wondered how they could do this
> legally.
> 
> > - therefore, publish a src.rpm only, including a fetch script but no
> > sources proper
> 
> So, it should then be rebuilt on deployment sites?
> 
> > - accept failure of the fetch-script ( like
> 
> That's in case there is no network connectivity?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mathieu