Host for jdk16 distfiles?

[Greg Lewis]

G'day Eirik,

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 08:35:56AM +0100, Eirik ?verby wrote:
> I have hosting facilities and resources to spare, but I could need  
> help creating the click-through interface you're talking about. Can  
> you be more specific about what will be required of (me/the pages)?

Ultimately its up to you and your reading of the JRL about what is
required.  The result of what I believe is required is the patchset
download page -- basically I require that a user agree that they
are a licensee (of the JRL) in good standing before they can download
the patchset.  This is pretty much what Sun requires too.

Obviously option 2 below has the least legal risk for anyone since the
main source will still be downloaded from Sun.  However, I wonder how
long that source will last.

> On Dec 26, 2008, at 07:30, Greg Lewis wrote:
> 
> > G'day all,
> >
> > As you may have noticed, Sun have removed the source files for  
> > Update 3.
> >
> > I will contact Sun about this, but I expect they may well suggest we  
> > should
> > just switch to OpenJDK 6 and they have no plans for more JRL source
> > releases.  While thats going on, we have two alternatives as I see it:
> >
> > 1. Someone could volunteer to host the source files.  To comply with  
> > the
> >   JRL you need to implement some kind of click through to have people
> >   retrieve them.  I think this rules out me hosting them on the public
> >   FreeBSD pages.
> >
> > 2. I could release a quick patchset which is essentially unchanged  
> > except
> >   that I do a diff against an earlier source release (which I notice  
> > are
> >   still available).  The patchset would include the changes to bring  
> > that
> >   source code up to Update 3, so it wouldn't matter what the source
> >   version was.
> >
> > Comments?  Volunteers?
> > -- 
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