From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FghWC-0006x2-57 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 May 2006 12:22:16 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k4ICKpAn028480; Thu, 18 May 2006 12:20:51 GMT Received: from rasmus.uib.no (rasmus.uib.no [129.177.13.13]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4ICKogn028061 for ; Thu, 18 May 2006 12:20:50 GMT Received: from nille.uib.no (smtp.student.uib.no) [129.177.13.20] by rasmus.uib.no with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1FghUk-0000iS-Mw; Thu, 18 May 2006 14:20:50 +0200 Received: from tunnel-44-250.vpn.uib.no ([192.168.2.103]) [129.177.44.250] by smtp.student.uib.no with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1FghUk-0004fB-6I; Thu, 18 May 2006 14:20:46 +0200 Message-ID: <446C6729.7010405@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 14:23:05 +0200 From: Karl Trygve Kalleberg Organization: Genoo Foundation User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051013) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-java@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ted Kosan CC: gentoo-java@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-java] New Sun JDK/JRE license for Linux distributions References: <20060516202820.1569.qmail@web31810.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060516202820.1569.qmail@web31810.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-checked-clean: by exiscan on rasmus X-Scanner: da26dad8ac8ac760950624b4d5a56cb2 http://tjinfo.uib.no/virus.html X-UiB-SpamFlag: NO UIB: -9.4 hits, 8.0 required X-UiB-SpamReport: spamassassin found; -9.0 Message received from UIB -0.4 Did not pass through any untrusted hosts X-Archives-Salt: 11b0045f-8cc9-44cf-b835-f1f2edd3b281 X-Archives-Hash: fa8d9c2db90e6467c4288425cd649020 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 -- gentoo-java@gentoo.org mailing list