Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1172 mails)

[todd rme <toddrme2178@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>
> > Up to now, openSUSE users had the choice of using openJDK (GPL with
> > classpath exceptions) or Sun/Oracle's Java. The Sun/Oracle Java was
> > licensed under the "Distributor's License for Java (DLJ)", which
> > allowed Linux distributors to package and redistribute Sun/Oracle
> > Java. Recently, Oracle announced [1] that openJDK 7 is the new
> > official reference implementation for Java SE7. They no longer see the
> > need for the DLJ licensed Java implementation and so have retired that
> > license.
>
> Just thinking out loud - might it be an option to keep distributing the
> older Java or was the license for that changed too?

I think the problem is that it is no longer getting security fixes.

-Todd
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