[conspire] End of an era for Java

[Rick Moen]

Many people will have missed the fact that Oracle Corp. changed the
licensing on Sun Java as of Java SE 7 / JDK7 so that third parties (such
as Linux distributions) are no longer allowed to distribute it.  See
link, below.

Fortunately, OpenJDK is mature, OpenJDK 7 is available, and even
Oracle's point man for Java (the estimable Dalibor Topic) has nothing
but nice things to say about it:
http://robilad.livejournal.com/90792.html

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Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:50:15 +0200
From: Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre at debian.org>
To: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs at debian.org>, 645881 at bugs.debian.org
Cc: debian-release at lists.debian.org, debian-security at lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#645881: critical update 29 available
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CC debian release & security

Le mercredi 19 octobre 2011 à 12:21 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst a écrit :
> Upstream has released Java SE 6 update 29 yesterday:
> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpuoct2011-443431.html
> with security fixes.

Well, that especially means that it is now time to consider the removal
of sun-java6 from Debian.

We, the distros, are no longer allowed by Oracle to redistribute this
version [1] [2].
The OpenJDK (6 or 7) is now the way to go.

About stable, I don't know what the security team would recommend
here ?!

Thanks,
Sylvestre
[1]
http://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/sylvestre/2011/08/26/sun_java6_packages_removed_from_debian_u
[2] http://jdk-distros.java.net/
The DLJ has finally been retired, and so has been this project.




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