Marco d'Itri wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I watched Sun's Simon Phipps' talk at debconf 2006 few weeks ago. >> It was mentioned that the choice of venue was useless and would be >> removed from CDDL, thus making CDDL DSFG-compliant. > There is no consensus that choice of venue clauses are not > DSFG-compliant, anyway.
Indeed allow me to appeal to everyone to reconsider CDDL *as is* given the clarification that Simon has provided in this regard [1]. Why is this important? Because Sun has several software projects that are licensed under CDDL that we would really, really like accepted into Debian. The key example is our NetBeans IDE. The purpose of packaging NetBeans for Debian is to give Free Software developers *a chance* to evaluate this development tool and compare it to other tools available. Until very, very recently this hasn't even been possible as we are fully aware that NetBeans has had various "non-free" dependencies (which would have blocked it's inclusion in "main"). Thus the primary rationale for liberating javac and JavaHelp as part of the Java Open Source launch [2] was to free these key dependencies for NetBeans. Today NetBeans also depends on the Sun Java runtime. We have done some research with Free Java implementations to demonstrate functionality on a runtime currently in "main" and this work is ongoing. So you can transparently see the trajectory of Sun Java becoming itself a Free Java runtime in early 2007 [2]. In the interim I am very pleased in our work together to date to get Sun Java into "non-free" under the DLJ [3]. And so the trajectory for NetBeans, therefore, is we would like to package all dependent parts which are recognized as DFSG compliant for "main" (CDDL, GPL packages) and prepare a NetBeans package under CDDL which depends (initially) on the "non-free" Sun Java runtime [3] such that upon the full liberation of Sun Java that NetBeans will become a candidate for "main". I know that CDDL has been discussed many, many times on d-l in the past. In light of Sun's commitment to Free Software and our desire to make this software available to Debian Developers and users it is apropos to work towards consensus on the DFSG status of CDDL. I welcome your comments and concerns. Respectfully, --Tom [1] http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/choice_of_venue [2] http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/java/ [3] http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/sun-java5.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
