On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Paul Mattal <paul@mattal.com> wrote:
Jan de Groot wrote:
On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 10:47 +0200, Andreas Radke wrote:
+1 from me. Most work seems to done already in the AUR packages.
But then we should also drop providing SUN's jre/jdk in extra. Let's support only free software. Let's put SUN stuff back to AUR. That also solves probable license issues.
Both JRE/JDKs are compatible with eachother. The licensing of Sun JRE/JDK is "free" also due to the distribution license they put on it. This means we can distribute it with our distribution for free. This means there's no licensing issue, so we're allowed to have it in the repositories, either extra or community.
I don't know what the current maintainer thinks about keeping JDK/JRE, but if he insists on keeping it, we'll keep it. If he decides to drop it, we'll drop it and place it in community.
Hi.
Didn't realize this discussion was going to get into Sun JDK/JRE. Since they are free, and still provide the best compatibility around, I don't see why we should drop them.
Has anyone found circumstances in which the Sun JDK and JRE have been inadequate for their Java needs? I recognize that it's possible that one day OpenJDK will actually lead the pack, given the way the Java world is moving, but I don't think that day is yet, and generally prefer to be using the reference JVM wherever possible.
Whoa! I'm with Paul here. This was never meant to be the free software crusade. When we become Debian I will find myself a new distro. -Dan