Adam Thornton wrote:
On Mar 25, 2009, at 2:43 PM, Mark Post wrote:
Why? Almost every Linux distribution has made exceptions to their
own rules. Just look at Java. Up until recently, it was not open
source, but it gets included anyway. As far as Slack/390 goes, that
was my project, and although I didn't like the situation at the
time, I wasn't going to have a philosophical meltdown over it. If it
hadn't been for the cooperation IBM received, the open source
proponents inside of IBM would never have gotten the code released.
Sometimes compromise and patience win in the end. It certainly did
this time.
"Almost."
I find Debian's insistence on license purity admirable from one
standpoint, but irritating from several others.
As I recall, RH doesn't ship OCO stuff either. Some closed-source stuff
it does include (and Java has been one) is only in the paid-for
versions. Users of Fedora and RHEL clones continue to have problems with
blobs of firmware (wireless cards for example). I'm sure I read here,
"Get that from IBM."
Hopefully, Java is more-or-less solved about now.
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