On 13.05.20 14:55, Solomon Peachy wrote:
On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 10:57:43PM -0400, Gerald Henriksen wrote:
> The only way to make sure that the stuff included with Fedora is open
> source is to build it from source - simply grabbing a binary provided
> by an upstream means upstream could slip in some closed source
> portions or have such a complex and undocumented build system that the
> project may as well be closed source because no one else can build it.
I've personally encountered Java stuff that, when compiled from its
sources, immediately crashed, whereas the "official binaries" worked.
That is just incredibly broken.
Things like this are the reason why I think the build-from-source
principle is important, regardless of the inconvience it undeniably causes.
Christopher