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On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 3:35 PM Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@g.o> 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. |