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| From: | Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@g.o> |
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o |
| Subject: | [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin, dev-java/oracle-jre-bin |
| Date: | Sun, 18 Aug 2019 07:21:11 |
| Message-Id: | 84686650-e2b8-60cd-b5e9-bb9fa9e08173@gentoo.org |
| 1 | All future versions masked, unmaintained, multiple security bugs, the |
| 2 | most important bug is a possible serious license violation[1] that puts |
| 3 | users into legal trouble. |
| 4 | |
| 5 | nobody in java team maintains it, so if you want to keep it - please |
| 6 | take care of it. |
| 7 | |
| 8 | Current tarballs no longer accessible, downloading new ones requires |
| 9 | oracle account and agreement to new license, which is in effect since |
| 10 | April 2019 |
| 11 | New license seems to be ok for home or development use, but IANAL. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | |
| 14 | |
| 15 | general discussion bug still open: |
| 16 | https://bugs.gentoo.org/681828 |
| 17 | |
| 18 | |
| 19 | PS. Personally I'd drop it, but it was discussed before[2] and some |
| 20 | people expressed strong opinion of keeping it outside of java team. |
| 21 | |
| 22 | [1]https://bugs.gentoo.org/692420 |
| 23 | [2]https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/ed6b0e3c3ac174aba972d2a436ab252f |
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