Hello, ... continuing an off-list discussion about Java requirements on GNU Savannah, and based on helpful suggestions from Per Bothner,
I'd suggest changing the current Wiki page ( http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/JavaIssues/ ) to this: ================================== Introduction ------------ To host your project at Savannah, your project needs to run under a free software Java suite. Quoting Richard Stallman's [Free But Shackled - The Java -Trap](http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html):
Sun has relicensed most of its Java platform reference implementation under the GNU General Public License, and there is now a free development environment for Java. Thus, the Java language as such is no longer a trap. You must be careful, however, because not every Java platform is free. Sun [now Oracle] continues distributing an executable Java platform which is nonfree, and other companies do so too.
Requirements ------------ * For project using Java SE (Standard Edition), it should be possible to build and run the projects using Open-JDK-7 or Open-JDK-8. * For project using Java EE (Enterprise Edition), it should be possible to build and run the project using one of the Free Java EE implementations (e.g. Glassfish, Tomcat, or JBoss). * The project should be built with a Free build tool (e.g. ant, maven, Eclipse, NetBeans) * To ensure a proper Free Java environment is used, it is recommended to test the build using Open-JDK on a Free operating system such as [Trisquel](http://trisquel.info/). ================================== Comments are welcomed, - assaf
