On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 08:28:18AM -0400, Robert Marcano via devel wrote:
On 6/1/23 3:51 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 05:27:47PM +0200, Jiri Vanek wrote:
>>This was heavily discussed when we moved to portable build in rpms -
>>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/JdkInTreeLibsAndStdclibStatic
>>Long story short yes, if yo wish to distribute jdk *binary* it have
>>to pass java compliance suite.
>
>It sounds like the problem is the software isn't really open source
>because it has some field of use restrictions. The best plan would be
>to change this upstream, and if that isn't possible then to remove it
>from Fedora.
>
>Rich.
>
It is the same discussion about Firefox that is already settled I
think. The JVM code is open source, even free software. The
trademark isn't. Mozilla doesn't allow anyone to call the browser
Firefox without some rules.
Both projects involve heavy-handed enforcement of trademarks, but
don't seem to be the same issue. (I'll leave this to lawyers to
answer definitely though.)
Red Hat want to run the tests because Java corporate users want
that, so Red Hat does it and at the same time helps to have a more
robust Java ecosystem.
That's nice, and indeed RHEL ships OpenJDK. The question is about
what we do in Fedora.
Rich.
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