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. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
