Peter Robinson wrote:
> Actually that's not entirely correct. They're removing the Sun Java
> closed source variant due to changes in licensing from Oracle
> preventing them from shipping security fixes. They also ship OpenJDK
> which is the open source release of the Java JDK as shipped in Fedora
> and that will continue to be available and its completely compatible
> with the Sun variant as its mostly based on the same code. I
> personally think its a good thing.
>
> See their press release with the full details
> https://lwn.net/Articles/472466/
What I don't understand is why they're replacing the packages with empty
packages rather than just dragging in OpenJDK as an upgrade, which IMHO
would be much less disruptive.
Kevin Kofler
--
devel mailing list
devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
