At 03:02 PM 2/8/00 , Mark S. Miller wrote:
>Yes! Halcyon Software has just open sourced their Java "Instant Installer" ...
>
>Btw, don't bother trying to download from the above URL -- they shut the
>download host down cause it got hacked. I should shortly be getting a
>working URL ("within a day or so"), at which time I'll send that out.
>
>It's released under a modified Mozilla license. Once I've posted the
>alternate URL, I'd love opinions about this license. Is it really open
>source? Is it safe? Their FAQ about the license does not seem to me to
>correspond to the text of their license.
I just heard from them (thanks John!). Instant Installer is now available at
http://gate02.halcyonsoft.com/opensource/installer/ . I would especially
like an opinion on the license
http://gate02.halcyonsoft.com/opensource/installer/lisc.html .
John, the discussion you've just been cc'ed on is about the E language, whose home is http://www.erights.org . E is open source and written in Java. It needs a platform portable open source installer, both for it, and for applications written in it. You can browse the discussion so far at http://www.eros-os.org/~majordomo/e-lang/index.html . See especially the thread "E 0.8.7 & NT". We'd like to understand how Instant Installer might help us out. Thanks.
Cheers,
--MarkM