Re: Where's my Derby?
On 05-04-2010 09:15, Tom Anderson wrote:
On Sun, 4 Apr 2010, Arne Vajh?j wrote:
On 04-04-2010 20:02, Tom Anderson wrote:
See my response to Mark. There's still no sign of Derby on my machine.
My reason was apparently valid.
According to this rather antique blog post:
http://blogs.sun.com/FrancoisOrsini/entry/ubuntu_users_gets_java_db
Ubuntu decided to make Derby a separate package. Digging around in my
package info, it seems that this is still the case, and i don't have it
installed. And that i can't install it through the package manager,
because of some funky Ubunutu version conflict lameness. Oh joy.
That is pretty nasty of them. People that have installed Java expect
to have a complete Java.
I don't think SUN should have bundled Derby, but they did and
tampering with the Java distribution is just bad.
Strongly agreed. I want to use Java, not DebianJava. I don't want to
have to go and start a thread on a newsgroup to double-check the fact
that something that should work doesn't. Now i've wasted you guys' time
as well as my own!
It may even be a violation of the license and/or trademark.
I doubt that - neither Debian nor Ubuntu are that stupid.
If Java DB is considered part of Java, then shipping a "Java"
without it would be a violation of license/trademark/whatever.
MS paid 20M$ for that.
SUN/Oracle would probably not be agressive against Debian/Ubuntu. And
Debian/Ubuntu would probbaly fix it right away if notified.
Arne
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