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Re: [ANN] New version of j2se-package (formerly mpkg-j2sdk)

Hallo J.,

* J. R. Westmoreland wrote:
>I thought that I understood that the package itself was not FREE not
>that the software to make the package was not FREE? E.g., the j2sdk is
>NOT FREE but the software that creates the package IS FREE. Therefore,
>one could include the script in java-common and ALL parts of the
>java-common are FREE.

Installer depend on unfree software and therefor at least must go into
contrib. There was some discussion, whether they should altogether go
to non-free. See debian-devel for that.

Therfor IMO: no 'installer' can go into java-common and
mpkg-java/j2se-package must also go into contrib...

Jan
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