On 5/25/22 15:19, Stephen Smoogen wrote:
On Wed, 25 May 2022 at 09:04, Jiri Vanek <jvanek(a)redhat.com
<mailto:jvanek@redhat.com>> wrote:
On 5/24/22 21:41, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote:
> On 24/05/2022 21:00, Jiri Vanek wrote:
>> I repeat what was told several times.We really do no t like this change,
especially in its full sound of one static build repacked to all ive fedoras, but we have
nto found a better way.
>
> 1. Stop doing TCK certification. Most Fedora OpenJDK users don't need
certified binaries.
We can not ship uncerified JDK. Sooner or later a swarm of lawyers would appear.
So could it be shipped instead as a icedtea?
When we were shipping icedtea6 and later icedtea7, it still required TCK, so iced tea is
not an option.
I added bot Andrews to cc, as they remains masters of IcedTea even now, when it is agesd
dead (maybe technically beyond resurrection)
IIRC, icedtea is set of patches on top of openjdk. So it remains Opendk. So it reqwuires
TCK. Pelase anybody if yo really know, correct me. I'm also not lawyer.
Thanx a lot for writting this down
The reason I am asking is that I think we need to look seriously at the alternatives and
see how much work the community is going to need to do.
1. Fedora no longer ships a trademarked 'coffee-themed language'. Instead it adds
an external repository where your team is able to focus on what they can deliver.
2. Fedora no longer ships a trademarked 'coffee-themed language'. Instead, a
volunteer driven SIG puts in an icedtea back into into Fedora instead.
3. Fedora no longer ships a trademarked 'coffee-themed language'. Instead people
wanting it will need to find an external place which builds it.
4. Fedora ships a trademarked 'coffee-themed language' that is static. However
this doesn't decrease the workload enough and we need to move to 1-3 in 2 to 3 years.
If we exclude Red hat from Openjdk and it will remain purely on community, and if they
will be good enogh to really maintian JDKs fo fedora, I cant predict impact of Law, when
..someone .. finds it is driven by anonymous without signed
agreement and without TCK. I realy do not know.
Thanx!!!
J.