Sun JRE or JDK to enter core, or at least extras?

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Fri May 19 14:47:51 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 10:37 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 10:33:08AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > and no matter what it is off topic for this list.
> > sun's java is not free software. It will NOT be in fedora provided that
> > it continues to be closed-source - no matter how much they let us
> > redistribute it.
> 
> *nod*
> 
> > so we can stop discussing it.
> 
> Yes. I just want it to be very clear that _that_ is the showstopper, not
> some particular reading of the current license.
> 

And before someone can argue and complain that we're just being free
software zealots I'd like to openly affirm that label.

I am an free software zealot.

If I have anything to do with it fedora will NEVER have non-free
software in it.

-sv





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