Andrea, Java and JRE might me localized in Italian, but they are not in Slovenian and several if not most world languages.
A l10n installation installs an English non-localized software etc. Is that still a fully localized build? Should not there be 100% of GUI localized? Here is the list of languages that JRE is fully localized in: Chinese (both), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish. Just 9 (or 10 if you count two Chinese) languages. OOo is fully built in 31 (!) languages. I guess the French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish and Swedish communities might be happy with this decision, but what about other 20 communities? Let's make an offer to Sun - JRE will be packed into all OOo builds by default if and when you provide the localization for all languages that have full builds of OOo. However, that will not clear the licensing issue that might exist. Lp, m. 2010/1/13 Andrea Pescetti <[email protected]> > Martin Srebotnjak wrote: > > In this sense - are wJRE builds still considered l10n builds and > community > > builds and truly opensource? > > The Italian team has only released with-JRE builds (for Windows) for a > long time, and surely we will do this for 3.2 too. If one is fine with > using Microsoft Windows then the non-free JRE is not an issue; also, > it's very easy to skip the JRE installation with an "advanced > installation". > > Still, this is an issue: a policy issue and a practical issue for those > non-Windows users who prefer free software only. I proposed long ago to > bundle OpenOffice.org with a free software version of JRE. I'm not > following Java development, but as far as I know this issue should > eventually be solved when the open-sourcing of Java is completed. If > anyone has some knowledge of this, I'd really like to learn more about > the Java licensing status. > > Regards, > Andrea Pescetti - Italian N-L Project Lead. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
