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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] Java-Policy first draft published</H1>
    <B>Thierry Vignaud</B> 
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    <I>Fri Jan 21 10:06:21 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>On 21 January 2011 00:01, nicolas vigier &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">boklm at mars-attacks.org</A>&gt; wrote:
&gt;&gt;<i> Shipping binary jar given by upstream tarball cause trouble because you
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> 1) cannot patch them in case of bug
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> 2) cannot see how and what was compiled
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> That's not very free software friendly, and I think we should refuse
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> that.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> I've already seen while trying to package java apps, a jar being shipped,
</I>&gt;<i> but sources not available anywhere on the internet, except after
</I>&gt;<i> searching for a few hours on an old website on archive.org with broken
</I>&gt;<i> link to the sources zip, and developers not aware of the issue, because
</I>&gt;<i> they never tried to find the sources, and always used this binary .jar
</I>&gt;<i> they found on a random web site.
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And they never though about security...
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