On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Paul Mattal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jan de Groot wrote: >> >> On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 10:47 +0200, Andreas Radke wrote: >>> >>> +1 from me. Most work seems to done already in the AUR packages. >>> >>> But then we should also drop providing SUN's jre/jdk in extra. >>> Let's support only free software. Let's put SUN stuff back to AUR. >>> That >>> also solves probable license issues. >> >> Both JRE/JDKs are compatible with eachother. The licensing of Sun >> JRE/JDK is "free" also due to the distribution license they put on it. >> This means we can distribute it with our distribution for free. This >> means there's no licensing issue, so we're allowed to have it in the >> repositories, either extra or community. >> >> I don't know what the current maintainer thinks about keeping JDK/JRE, >> but if he insists on keeping it, we'll keep it. If he decides to drop >> it, we'll drop it and place it in community. > > Hi. > > Didn't realize this discussion was going to get into Sun JDK/JRE. Since they > are free, and still provide the best compatibility around, I don't see why > we should drop them. > > Has anyone found circumstances in which the Sun JDK and JRE have been > inadequate for their Java needs? I recognize that it's possible that one day > OpenJDK will actually lead the pack, given the way the Java world is moving, > but I don't think that day is yet, and generally prefer to be using the > reference JVM wherever possible.
Whoa! I'm with Paul here. This was never meant to be the free software crusade. When we become Debian I will find myself a new distro. -Dan
