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[Ralf Lang <lang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Freitag, 2. September 2011, 22:07:02 schrieb Sid Boyce:
> 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.

You don't want an unmaintained version of java around your core distribution. 
(Let the lawyers check if it is even legal to ship the old thing in a new 
release first, please). If you really need it, the oracle site is just a link 
or possibly a wrapper script away.

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