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