You are right Tim; I had forgotten the System VM. For system VMs, we could use OpenJDK distribution, but this is something that has to be discussed and well-studied.
Thanks for sharing this Felipe and Tim. On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 11:36 PM, Felipe Arturo Polanco < [email protected]> wrote: > Here is the link > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/16/oracle_targets_ > java_users_non_compliance/ > > On Dec 25, 2016 9:30 PM, "Tim Mackey" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 8:23 PM, Rafael Weingärtner < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I think the point here is that we do not redistribute Oracle Java JDK. > We > > > use the Java programming language to write a program (the Apache > > > CloudStack). When we distribute the ACS' binaries, e.g. a closed > version, > > > we are also not redistributing the Java, what we do is distributing a > > > binary that is compiled with a Java JDK. > > > > > > > For the management server, I believe that to be correct. The system VMs > may > > not be so clean, and that's more my concern here. I'm happy to have that > > concern unfounded. This is a topic we're working through at $dayjob, so > > front of mind for me right now. > > > > > > > Of course, we cannot forget the licenses for library binaries that we > are > > > redistributing with ACS' versions; but, this is not the same as > > > redistributing Oracle Java JRE/JDK. And as far as I know we manage this > > > properly. > > > > > > On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 11:13 PM, Tim Mackey <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > Would be good to have a reference too. The only thing I'm aware of > > which > > > > might impact us relates to any redistributed elements[1]. It would > be a > > > > question for the dev list to know if this does indeed impact the > > project. > > > > > > > > -tim > > > > > > > > [1] http://blog.takipi.com/running-java-on-docker-youre- > > > breaking-the-law/ > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 8:01 PM, Rafael Weingärtner < > > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Could you share with us the reference? So we can have a bit more > > > > > information to discuss it. > > > > > > > > > > I believe what they charge is for consulting, and not for the use > of > > > Java > > > > > language per se. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 10:57 PM, Felipe Arturo Polanco < > > > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > > > > I read in the news Oracle is collecting from companies using Java > > > > > libraries > > > > > > in commercial uses, since Cloudstack uses Java for its > operations, > > > > should > > > > > > we worry about it? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > Rafael Weingärtner > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Rafael Weingärtner > > > > > > -- Rafael Weingärtner
