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[Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>]

Here is a guy who seems to be saying the practice of just providing JRE
unpackaged and bundled is ok. By far the easiest thing to do (not bothering
the poor user with all these different interfaces - one for DHIS, one for
Java, one for the database...):

"What I mean is creating a subfolder in the installation directory with a
cut down jre (which is allowed in the license agreement)"

http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=708451

2010/2/10 Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>

> 2010/2/10 Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Jason Pickering <
>> jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hmm, what do you mean I can't do it? Like it violates the license?
>>>
>>> Well, I did do it, and it worked, but I guess Sun's lawyers will be
>>> paying me a visit here in Lusaka. I packaged the EXE and triggered it
>>> during the installation, similar to the Postgres MSI. The same
>>> click-through installation procedures was used with postgres as well,
>>> although this could be done silently.
>>>
>>> Yeah, the little notice that you must download it will not work here,
>>> as there will be no internet where  I will be next week.
>>>
>>> If the Sun distro cannot be packaged, even the EXE, then this is a
>>> problem, and we need to find another JRE.
>>>
>>>
>> Nice work..
>>
>> I think as long as the end user clicks agree to the the terms/license it
>> is not a problem...
>>
>> Agree. Interesting to see they also provide silent installs...how does
> that work, license-wise?
> http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/install/jre/silent.html
>
> Knut
>
>
>> Lars
>>
>>
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> Knut Staring
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Cheers,
Knut Staring