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On Wednesday, April 17, 2019 6:31:42 PM PDT Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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> On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 3:35 PM Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@g.o> |
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wrote: |
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> > # Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@g.o> (17 Apr 2019) |
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> > # The Oracle JDK License has changed for releases starting April 16, 2019 |
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> > # While it may be fine to use for some usecases it's not comepletely clear |
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> > # what is considered "personal use" and if we can legally distribute it. |
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> > # License states: |
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> > # "You may not: |
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> > # make the Programs available in any manner to any third party" |
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> I don't agree with your rationale here. |
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> Gentoo does not distribute the JDK due to RESTRICT="fetch mirror" in |
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> the ebuild, so Oracle's license has no relevance. |
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> Oracle cannot prohibit us from distributing a shell script that moves |
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> some files around. That liability is on the user who runs it. |
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> We cannot force you to continue maintaining this package, but I think |
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> we should have a better reason for masking/removing it. If you cannot |
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> provide one, please just drop this to maintainer-needed. |
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I've modified the mask for now, but I still believe we should drop it. |
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I do not maintain it at all, I only work on openjdk and a bit of icedtea. |
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For a while[1] we've been modifying provided jar: |
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zip -d jre/lib/rt.jar sun/misc/PostVMInitHook.class || die |
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but license[2] states that |
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"You may not: |
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make the Programs available in any manner to any third party |
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... |
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create, modify, or change the behavior of, classes, interfaces, or |
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subpackages that are in any way identified as "java", "javax", "sun", “oracle” |
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or similar convention as specified by Oracle in any naming convention |
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designation. |
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" |
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Is it even legal? |
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Java usage tracker will fail due to sandbox during builds. |
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while writing this email I found out it's probably possible to disable it with |
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com.oracle.usagetracker.track.last.usage=false |
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in |
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/etc/oracle/java/usagetracker.properties |
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need to test it |
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[1]https://bugs.gentoo.org/559936 |
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[2]https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/terms/license/javase-license.html |
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Georgy Yakovlev |
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Gentoo Linux Developer |
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