Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves

[Francis Earl]

Sun Java is not redistributable and currently isn't open source, thus
goes against Fedora values in 2 ways.

Kernel modules that are not GPLv2 compatible are indeed illegal,
however. Other modules are not shipped because they are not part of the
upstream kernel, which again goes against Fedora values.

The next release of Sun Java I believe will be based on openjdk however,
so that shouldn't be an issue going forward, and I'm sure there are
methods to propose legal modules be allowed into Fedora - although I'm
not sure how far that would get...

On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 20:16 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Francis Earl wrote:
> > It has everything to do with legalities, as the source code for the
> > encoders/decoders is available.
> 
> Not everything that fedora makes difficult is illegal.  Sun Java, for 
> one example, the drivers provided by the vendors of the hardware users 
> have chosen to purchase for another.
> 
> -- 
>    Les Mikesell
>     lesmikesell at gmail.com
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