Hi Joe,
I'm wondering what the strategy is regarding the existing stack
vs the
Sun stack now that it's under a Fedora compatible license. Will the
two initiatives merge sometime in the future? I'm sure this has been
discussed to death in other forums, but can someone who is familiar
with what's going on summarize?
Unfortunately, the Sun implementation of Java is not 100% free: some
encumbered areas remain which were released as binary-only plugs.
The IcedTea project (
http://icedtea.classpath.org or
http://iced-tea.org) attempts to use the GNU Classpath project to
replace these areas and create a 100% free Java implementation based on
Sun's OpenJDK, and we plan on having this in Fedora.
One problem thus far have been some licensing problems with Sun's
OpenJDK: a handful of files do not have proper license headers, and
while we suspect this was merely an oversight, they have not been fixed
yet and are a barrier to Fedora inclusion. We are hoping to have this
resolved before Fedora 8.
Cheers,
Francis