[fedora-java] Packaging an eclipse-RCP based app

Mat Booth fedora at matbooth.co.uk
Mon Jan 11 13:27:40 UTC 2010


2010/1/11 Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp.org>:
> On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 12:44 +0000, Mat Booth wrote:
>> It's worth noting that jogl was removed from Fedora [1] because its
>> licence is explicitly banned. Unless upstream has relicenced jogl to a
>> better licence it seems likely you may have to submit your package to
>> RPMFusion instead.
>
> The parts that were under the SGI Free License B 1.0/1.1 (probably
> derived from MESA) were "upgraded" to be fully free now under terms
> identical to the terms of the X11 license.
> http://www.fsf.org/news/thank-you-sgi
>
> If that was the only issue, then jogl could take advantage of this
> license upgrade and be resumbitted for inclusion into Fedora.
>

Oh, very cool. I stand corrected. :-)


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Mat Booth


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