[Mageia-dev] Java-Policy first draft published

Thu Jan 13 13:42:20 CET 2011

Le mercredi 12 janvier 2011 à 20:49 +0100, Farfouille a écrit :
+> Le 12/01/2011 17:45, Frank Griffin a écrit :
+> > 
+> > Michael Scherer wrote:
+> >> Le mercredi 12 janvier 2011 à 11:24 -0500, Frank Griffin a écrit :
+> >>   
+> >>> The bit about pre-packaged JARs may cause trouble.
+> >> That's the same issue for everything.
+> >>
+> >> Shipping binary jar given by upstream tarball cause trouble because you 
+> >> 1) cannot patch them in case of bug
+> >> 2) cannot see how and what was compiled 
+> >>
+> >> That's not very free software friendly, and I think we should refuse
+> >> that.
+> >>
+> >>   
+> > Granted, but unless every free software project migrates to Maven, you'd
+> > be refusing a lot of popular apps.   
+> > 
+> > In theory, the packager of such an application could create
+> > supplementary packages for the specific versions of included JARs and
+> > build them first from source.  But for something like NetBeans or
+> > Eclipse, that's going to be a lot of work....
+> > 
+> > 
+> > 
+> I propose to keep the restriction, but to allow some exception, mainly blockbuster like
+> Eclipse and Netbeans in order to build an appealing distro.
+
+Then we will move it to non free, as we do not have the source code for
+what we ship. 
+
+Not being able to rebuild it from sources is a non go for core.
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+