suggestion (avoiding privacy violation, register for Apple Developer Account)

Sven Aluoor aluoor at gmail.com
Fri Nov 12 12:43:11 PST 2010


On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>> Can you please upload/mirror this "javadeveloper_10.6_10m3261.dmg" at
>> MacPorts webserver
>
> I don't know whether Apple permits people to redistribute their software in this manner. Please sign up for a developer account and download it from them.

Hi Ryan

Java is Open Source from former Sun Microsystems. There is no problem
with that. But IANAL

>> (and auto-download when needed)?
>
> No, we won't do anything in MacPorts that installs things into system locations.

Thanks. I understand that

cheers Sven


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