On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 06:39:08PM -0500, David Nalley wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Fedora_13_Talking_Points&diff=155754&oldid=155751 > > > > Mark, > > > > Good question you posted on the Talking points draft page on the > > Fedora wiki. Unfortunately, we folks on the Marketing team are > > writing these without specific domain knowledge about Java. Can you > > provide some edits here that will help us better cover this particular > > talking point, and why it's good for developers, without promoting > > non-free software? > > > > So for reference the question posed is: > Are technologies like glassfish/java 6 ee, javafx, etc. packaged for > Fedora and actually Free Software? > > Glassfish is free software (GPL with classpath exception) - but I > don't see it in Fedora repos. I know that Java packaging is not trivial given the differences between the way Java devs tend to do it, and the requirements set out for Fedora packaging. > Java 6 EE - well the text refers to the Java 6 EE spec, and what's > left unsaid is that openJDK is what is meeting the spec. However most > people assume that's java-1.6.0-sun when they see Java 6 EE. How would you recommend restating this? Can you edit that talking point to make it so? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Talking_Points#NetBeans_6.8_first_IDE_to_support_entire_Java_6_EE_spec > JavaFX SDK appears to not be F/LOSS > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaFX#License) Right, mjw was noting this as well. I'm sending a copy of this email to victorv who's listed as the netbeans maintainer, to get him to edit this wiki page so that we are promoting only free software. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
