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

[Dariusz J. Garbowski]

On 05/18/2006 01:14 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 00:23 +0100, Dariusz J. Garbowski wrote:
>>
>> More details at 
>> http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/webmink?entry=jdk_on_gnu_linux_something
>>
> 
> Unfortunately there's a glaring disconnect between what the license says
> and what the Sun people think it says.  The things the Sun people are
> saying and the FAQ says are encouraging but they are quite plainly at
> odds with the License.  Since the license is legally binding whereas the
> FAQ and what the developers say is not, this new software license is not
> very helpful to Jpackage[1] or Debian[2].  When Sun responds to what
> JPackage and Debian's licensing issues with a better license we may see
> some progress.

Sadly...

> Also, no matter how you cut this license, it's not open source so the
> discussion definitely does not belong on fedora-devel (Fedora is
> committed to building from 100% open source software.)  There are a
> variety of other distributions, repositories, or Sun
> linux-community-portal-sites which would be more appropriate for
> discussing the intent of the new license versus its actual content.

Agreed. If anywhere, Sun Java as currently licensed does not belong to 
Core nor Extras. 3rd party repos perhaps if the licensing concerns are 
addressed.

Regards,
Dariusz

> [1]
> https://www.zarb.org/pipermail/jpackage-discuss/2006-May/thread.html#9914
> 
> [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/05/threads.html#00064
> 
> -Toshio


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