It is a consequence of Sun's licensing and Debian policy. I don't think finger pointing, even to Sun, will help at this point. We just need to figure out a way to work around the problem.
Personally, I wish Sun goes to H***! They also manage to wound other good ideas severely, like JINI with their stupidity. Bao > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Stephane Bortzmeyer > Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 10:58 AM > To: Artur Radosz > Cc: Stephane Bortzmeyer; debian-java > Subject: Re: Quitting debian-java > > > On Thursday 1 March 2001, at 16 h 40, the keyboard of Artur > Radosz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Anyway i hope that after quiting main Java2 blocker > > I will learn Peter's lesson, I will not write this is absurd. > But it is: the > fact that Java2 is non-free (and not even redistributable) is > not my decision, > but Sun's. > > > And maybe more democratic decision making system will be developed? > > You seem to believe that I was a sort of dictator (nominated > by who, BTW?) who > had the power to decide what goes or does not go into Debian. > If you think so, > may I suggest that you understood nothing about the way > Debian (or any > volunteer effort) works? > > Go ahead, stop whining, package Java2 and try to upload it. I > never had the > power to block it. Sun's lawyers have it. And the Debian > FTPmaster also has, > too, because he is officially in charge (I never was) of > preventing illegal > packages to be distributed in Debian (because carelessness of > one packager > could endanger the whole Debian project if Sun sues us). > > So, if you think I had any power, go ahead, take it. > Disclaimer: do not tell I > didn't warn you. > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
