Question on Java apps

[David Nalley]

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On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Paul W. Frields  wrote:
> https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Fedora_13_Talking_Points&diff=155754&oldid=155751
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> Mark,
>
> Good question you posted on the Talking points draft page on the
> Fedora wiki.  Unfortunately, we folks on the Marketing team are
> writing these without specific domain knowledge about Java.  Can you
> provide some edits here that will help us better cover this particular
> talking point, and why it's good for developers, without promoting
> non-free software?
>

So for reference the question posed is:
Are technologies like glassfish/java 6 ee, javafx, etc. packaged for
Fedora and actually Free Software?

Glassfish is free software (GPL with classpath exception) - but I
don't see it in Fedora repos.

Java 6 EE - well the text refers to the Java 6 EE spec, and what's
left unsaid is that openJDK is what is meeting the spec. However most
people assume that's java-1.6.0-sun when they see Java 6 EE.

JavaFX SDK appears to not be F/LOSS
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaFX#License)



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