On 04/30/2014 04:03 PM, Wang Weijun wrote:
Florian
Just curious, how do you deal with a file like this
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk/file/4e7f3aac979b/test/sun/security/krb5/ktab/HighestKvno.java
Is the byte array inside considered binary?
We consider content problematic for which source code apparently exists
(and which is the preferred form of making modifications), but it's not
part of the sources we use to build RPM packages.
The comment above the byte array indicates that this situation is
different in this case, and I don't think Fedora or Debian has problems
with it. For more authoritative information on this particular case,
you'd have to ask on the fedora-legal or debian-legal mailing lists.
(I'm treating this a question about policies for content inclusion in
free software distributions—this is not legal advice.)
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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team
