Yann Dirson wrote:
Hi Debian-Java team,
Following the recent OpenJDK announcement, I suppose that many Debian
users, but also DD's with packages that still require Sun JDK to
build/work, can't wait to see it packaged :)
The only information I could find about openjdk is the Nov'06 ITP's
for the early parts - nothing in various list archives or in svn. Has
anyone started to work on this ? Is any help needed ?
Best regards,
I suspect one thing that could hold Debian back is that the OpenJDK
still has encumbered bits. It would be difficult to distribute a binary
because the binary incorporates some non-free stuff from the encumbered
bits. I don't know what license we put on redistributing the encumbered
bits, but it clearly can't be a free license, so redistributing a binary
build at the moment clearly would not pass muster with debian-legal.
What Gentoo is delivering appears to me to be a build script where the
end user is the one downloading both the sources and the encumbered
bits. Also Tom Fitzsimmons (Fedora) has set up a source RPM that I
think he intends to incorporate into Fedora.
In the long term we clearly want to get to a position where openjdk
builds can be incorporated into the free repository of Debian and other
distros. But we aren't there, yet.
http://openjdk.java.net
http://openjdk.java.net/legal/
http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/java/faq.jsp#h
- David Herron
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