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 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
