Re: [gentoo-java] New Sun JDK/JRE license for Linux distributions

[Karl Trygve Kalleberg <karltk@gentoo.org>]

Ted Kosan wrote:
> I am at JavaOne this week and this morning at the main keynote Sun announced
> their new license for Linux distributions:
> 
> https://jdk-distros.dev.java.net
> 
> Debian and Ubuntu seem to be moving forward with the new license.  What are the
> gentoo-java group's thoughts on it?

We were contacted by Sun about a month ago, and they informed us of the
upcoming license change, and sent us a copy for us to evaluate. We read
it, and found that it allows us to mirror, i.e. redistribute the Sun
JDK/JRE.

Therefore, I whipped up an ebuild last week, and placed it our
experimental overlay this weekend, but on request from Sun, we didn't
pre-announce this, so as to not steal their thunder.

For those who have lurked on our IRC channel, you may have had reason to
believe that something was coming.


As you guys know, we're still in a package freeze due to 1.5 migration.
Even so, I suspect that we'll be making an exception and updating at
least the 1.5 JRE in the Portage tree relatively soon, perhaps also the JDK.


-- Karl T
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