need help with freedomotic snappy app

[mauro at freedomotic.com]

Hi Steve,
thanks for your reply. Is it possible to bundle Oracle JRE in our snap and
distribute it or are there Licence issues?

Mauro


On Tue, April 28, 2015 2:56 am, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 04:52:01PM -0700, Seth Arnold wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 09:01:29AM +0200, Steve Langasek wrote:
>>
>>> The snappy approach to this problem is to bundle openjdk in your snap
>>>  package.  At that point there would be no permissions problems since
>>> your app would be allowed to execute the binaries that are shipped as
>>> part of the snap package itself.
>
>> Is it at all feasible for a "standard" snap author to package openjdk
>> as a framework that they can rely upon for all their packages?
>
> Frameworks are centrally managed in the store, and gardened by Canonical.
>  They are primarily intended for mediation of resources - not as a means
> of declaring dependencies on a language runtime.  The recommended solution
> to this problem under Snappy is for the app developer to bundle the
> language runtime (here, the JRE) in their snap package.  There are tools
> that can facilitate creating such a snap, such as Mike Terry's deb2snap.
>
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