JBoss stalled (was Re: status of some packages ??)

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On 06/03/2010 10:33 AM, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
> On 06/01/2010 05:09 PM, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
> 
>> On 05/29/2010 07:25 PM, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
>>> JBoss[1] is still a *big* deficit. Potential for f14/15 ?
>>
>> I'm pretty sure JBoss is still a no-go because of poor licensing,
>> specifically:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479598
> 
> That is a nonsense.
> 
> JBoss is stalled because it depends on a package with:
> 
> - incompatible license
> - six years old
> - dead upstream
> 
> :-?

This is true (well, the problem is that there is no applicable and valid
license, not so much that it is incompatible), no matter how absurd it
might seem.

In general, Java licensing is... poor at best. This is admittedly a
rather confusing case, but still.

~spot