On 5/12/20 11:55 AM, Felix Schwarz wrote: > > Am 12.05.20 um 12:32 schrieb Ty Young: >> Right, I figured it was some Fedora policy and not up to you. I suppose I >> should have been more clear there. Sorry for any confusion, it was aimed at >> the Fedora project as a whole as this is a Fedora issue. > > This is not a Fedora issue but a consequence of Fedora's core values. You not > agree with it but "building from source" is so fundamental that it does not > make sense to even start a discussion about it on fedora-devel.
Yes, exactly. It's not a Java thing, it's a free software thing. If we just grab binaries how do we know that they respect the basic freedoms? > I suggest you read up on the rationale behind that policy (which is > why I linked the policy document in the first place). > > I understand that missing components/features due to the source > requirement are annoying but Fedora (and other distros) decided to > take the "high road" here and actually fix stuff instead of shipping > whatever upstream came up with. Quite. The high road is never the easy road. Thank you. -- Andrew Haley (he/him) Java Platform Lead Engineer Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com> https://keybase.io/andrewhaley EAC8 43EB D3EF DB98 CC77 2FAD A5CD 6035 332F A671 _______________________________________________ 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
