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On 18 April 2019 02:31:42 BST, Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> 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, |
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>2019 |
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>> # While it may be fine to use for some usecases it's not comepletely |
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>clear |
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>> # what is considered "personal use" and if we can legally distribute |
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>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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While I was overjoyed to see this mask, this is a fair point. I had previously been under the impression that Oracle wasn't even going to provide their own builds anymore, giving way to OpenJDK, but I guess that's not the plan now, if it ever was. It doesn't seem like a very Oracle thing to do. |
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