Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (818 mails)

[Michal Vyskocil <mvyskocil@xxxxxxx>]

On Friday 03 of October 2008 13:51:05 Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > Currently, the plan for openSUSE 11.1 is to only ship with openJDK and no
> > Sun Java at all.
> >
> > AJ, Michl, can you please confirm this?
>
> That was the plan so far - the expectation beeing that openJDK is a full
> replacement under an Open Source license,

The latest available version of icedtea* still has several issues [1].

2 Michael Loeffer
> There might be a legal issues (licence 
> changes). I'll recheck with our legal folks about that and let you 
> know what's the case with Sun Java 1.5.

The distributed JVM 1.5 is based on binary release releases [1] under DJL [2]. 
There was a problem with some parts of java-1_6_0-sun-src, but this is going 
to be fixed.

* JFI: icedtea brings a opensource support for build of openjdk. And also try 
to reimplement some parts of Sun JVM, which was not opened (the biggest 
example is the Java browser plugin). The java plugin distributed with openjdk 
comes from gcj.

[1] 
http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#What_does_and_doesn.27t_work_in_IcedTea.3F
[2] https://jdk-distros.dev.java.net/
[3] http://download.java.net/dlj/DLJ-v1.1.txt

Best Regards
Michal Vyskocil
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