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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