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dreadnought
September 19th, 2005, 02:43 PM
Whats Happening to the backport project. All the useful progs seem to be going i.e. J2re, real player, wincodecs etc.
I know others have asked but we don't appear to be getting any answers. Not good for Ubuntu image.
Velvet Elvis
September 19th, 2005, 03:19 PM
http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-backports/2005-September/000142.html
dreadnought
September 19th, 2005, 03:42 PM
Thanks for the reply.
I have since read and followed the links from ubuntu_geek message in news and updates. I can't help thinking there are other problems in the background. I say no more :-#
jdong
September 23rd, 2005, 06:44 AM
the packages you mentioned were removed after legal complaints.
mctavish
September 23rd, 2005, 07:04 AM
To remove the packages is totally understandable.

To keep it under your hat is a bad look. Announce it!

Whats going on indeed :roll: The punters are not psychic.
Xian
September 23rd, 2005, 08:55 AM
Whats Happening to the backport project. All the useful progs seem to be going i.e. J2re, real player, wincodecs etc
With the exception of wcodecs those pkgs are now in Breezy's repos.
strikeforce
September 23rd, 2005, 08:56 AM
With the exception of wcodecs those pkgs are now in Breezy's repos.

I thought the wcodecs where replaced with somethign else?

Gstreamer? Or does that not replace it properly?
Xian
September 23rd, 2005, 08:59 AM
Yeah, that's what I heard too, but I'm unsure of the pkg.
PaganHippie
September 25th, 2005, 01:34 AM
The win32 stuff I could understand, but Java? Suddenly, Sun doesn't want Linux users using the J2RE that they themselves give away for free? :confused: What am I missing here?

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OK, if it's going to re-appear in Breezy, I suppose I can hold out a couple more weeks for the official release.... :roll:
Velvet Elvis
September 25th, 2005, 03:59 AM
You have to pay a license fee to repackage the sun jre and jdk.

That said, if slackware can afford the license fee, surely ubuntu can.

Likely, the complaint came from some debian convert who still bows before the throne of debian-legal.

I really thought that part of the whole point of ubuntu was got get away from that dogmatic silliness.

Actually, java I can understand. It's the lack of mp3 support that continues to boggle my mind. The average windows user who has an ipod is not going to switch to an OS that doesn't play mp3s out of the box.
jdong
September 25th, 2005, 08:14 AM
The win32 stuff I could understand, but Java? Suddenly, Sun doesn't want Linux users using the J2RE that they themselves give away for free? :confused: What am I missing here?

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OK, if it's going to re-appear in Breezy, I suppose I can hold out a couple more weeks for the official release.... :roll:

In addition to licensing, J2RE can't be distributed with any other Java distributions, including GCC 4.0's Java compiler, and the GCC4 suite is necessary for Firefox backports.