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Debian DPL Threatens to Leave SPI Over Sun Java

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the honeymoon-is-over dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A three-week-long flame war in debian-devel over the new Java Distribution License has culminated in Anthony Towns, the newly elected Debian Project Lead, offering to separate Debian from its legal representative, SPI. This came as a response to SPI member John Goerzen's objections to the Debian project's interaction with Sun's legal team around the new JDL license without review from SPI's lawyers."

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  1. Three week flame war? by Kithraya · · Score: 0, Redundant

    A three week public flame war? Incidents like this are why I have a hard time selling Linux as something other than a "high school kid" operating system. Regardless of the reasons behind it, there are much better ways to handle it than a flame war, let alone one that lasts three weeks.