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Re: [opensuse-factory] Focusing on OpenJDK - Sun/Oracle JDK will not be in 12.1
On 02/09/11 08:47, Per Jessen 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?



If it's possible, a good idea as I for one have apps that depend on the older version.
Regards
Sid.

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