Hi. In 10.3, regarding Java, we want to do the following changes: - tomcat5 will be replaced by tomcat55 - we have jboss and geronimo already ... our jonas package is outdated anyways ... thus, dropping: jonas jonas-client jonas-docs jonas-examples
- the avalon framework does not exist anymore ... dropping: avalon-framework avalon-framework-javadoc avalon-framework-manual In order to clean openSUSE from non-oss packages, we want to do the following changes: - jai has strict licensing ... if there are no strong objections we would like to drop this package. - java-1.4.2-sun will be dropped, versions 1.5.0, 1.6.0 (DLJ licensed) and gcj-compat 1.4.2 will be included. The DLJ-license is a special lincense that was introduced by Sun in 2006 for re-distributors of Sun Java (see http://download.java.net/dlj/DLJ-FAQ.html). It's less strict and more precise on what is allowed and what is not regarding the re-distribution. Apart from that, nothing visible will change for the users -- Sun Java will still be in the openSUSE non-oss section. - the following packages will be replaced by gnu-javamail which has an open source license: javamail javamail-demo javamail-javadoc javamail-manual javamail-monolithic - the following packages will be replaced by gnu-jaf which has an open source license:: jaf jaf-demo jaf-javadoc jaf-manual - the following packages will be replaced by classpath-jta which has an open source license: jta jta-javadoc - the following packages will be replaced by mx4j which has an open source license: jmx jmx-javadoc The packages that get dropped due to their licenses are usually licensed with the Sun Binary license which is not really the type of license we want to include in openSUSE if free oss counterparts are available. Any thoughts and comments on this are very welcome :) Regards, Daniel --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
