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Ted Kosan wrote: |
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> I am at JavaOne this week and this morning at the main keynote Sun announced |
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> their new license for Linux distributions: |
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> https://jdk-distros.dev.java.net |
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> Debian and Ubuntu seem to be moving forward with the new license. What are the |
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> gentoo-java group's thoughts on it? |
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We were contacted by Sun about a month ago, and they informed us of the |
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upcoming license change, and sent us a copy for us to evaluate. We read |
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it, and found that it allows us to mirror, i.e. redistribute the Sun |
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JDK/JRE. |
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Therefore, I whipped up an ebuild last week, and placed it our |
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experimental overlay this weekend, but on request from Sun, we didn't |
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pre-announce this, so as to not steal their thunder. |
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For those who have lurked on our IRC channel, you may have had reason to |
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believe that something was coming. |
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As you guys know, we're still in a package freeze due to 1.5 migration. |
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Even so, I suspect that we'll be making an exception and updating at |
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least the 1.5 JRE in the Portage tree relatively soon, perhaps also the JDK. |
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-- Karl T |
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