Felipe,
As Erik shared, as a project we only distribute the source artifacts (tarballs). Rest of the artifacts (such as rpms, deb, binaries, systemvmtemplates) are all community effort. Regards. ________________________________ From: Erik Weber <[email protected]> Sent: 26 December 2016 21:26:07 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Now that Oracle is collecting for the use of Java, should we worry? Technically the ASF does not distribute binaries, that's a community effort. Erik man. 26. des. 2016 kl. 02.23 skrev Rafael Weingärtner < [email protected]>: > 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. > > > > 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. > > > [email protected] www.shapeblue.com 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London WC2N 4HSUK @shapeblue > 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 > >
