<div dir="ltr">GeoServer 2.9 (two weeks away) will support Java 8 - with OpenJDK and OracleJDK tested by build machines (woot!).<div><br></div><div>So if OSGeoLive wants to migrate to OpenJDK GeoServer at least will be ready - it will take some time for applications like uDig to make the switch.<div><br></div><div>As mentioned previously to the board - I am hoping to work with LocationTech to make a replacement for the JAI java plugin (which uses the sun binary license). If we can get that funded, then our Java stack will finally all be open source. If you know any interested parties I would love to hear from them. We will need to do fund raising both for the replacement (which still needs a name) and to migrate our OSGeo applications.</div><div><br></div><div>If you have contacts at Apache or Debian who would be interested in donating resources to either of those initiatives it would be amazing!</div><div><br></div><div>For background on the challenge <a href="https://github.com/geotools/geotools/wiki/Replace-JAI">https://github.com/geotools/geotools/wiki/Replace-JAI</a></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 May 2016 at 11:53, Brian M Hamlin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:maplabs@light42.com" target="_blank">maplabs@light42.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>OSGeo Board Members, stakeholders, list-members -</p>
<p> </p>
<p> below is the text of an email sent to the OSGeo-Live mail list today. I
forward it to the Board of OSGeo</p>
<p>because I believe that OSGeo-Live is one of the great assets of OSGeo.org
today, and that the </p>
<p>relationship of Java tech to the OSGeo mission is murky and presents
unsolved challenges.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><br>----- Forwarded message from Brian M Hamlin <<a href="mailto:maplabs@light42.com" target="_blank">maplabs@light42.com</a>>
-----<br><br>Subject: [Live-demo] Java, FOSS and OSGeo Live<br> To:
<a href="mailto:live-demo@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">live-demo@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><br>Hi All -<br><br> today in <a href="http://planet.debian.net" target="_blank">planet.debian.net</a>,
the Debian Java Packaging Team posted an interesting status update for all
things Java [0]<br><br> Java brings an opportunity and a challenge for
OSGeo-Live, at least. The relationship of Java [1], a "write-once, <br> run
anywhere" development environment, with its libraries, toolchains and licensing,
to the Debian Project<br> ecosystem [2] , and then to OSGeo-Live, is not
entirely straightforward. Yet, some of the biggest tech on the net<br> is
implemented in Java, and increasingly so.. <br><br> An opportuntiy for
OSGeo-Live Java is be a reference install, a widely-accessible showcase and
constructively <br> curated repetoire of current, relevent geospatial tech.
How can that evolve ?<br><br> A challenge for OSGeo-Live, at least, is to bridge
the legal and organizational gap between the Debian / Apache<br> roots of
OSGeo.org, and the reality of burgeoning industry, licensing and community
relationships within<br> the active Java world. Companies and people have put
their efforts into the Java platform, and that effort is<br> non-trivial and
often commercially protected. How can the OSGeo-Live, a reference install of
FOSS software,<br> respectfully and meaningfully showcase commercially protected
software alongside Libre libraries and apps,<br> given fundmental conflicts
behind-the-scenes on a number of levels ?<br><br> It is the promise of any vital
platform to find answers in vigorous conversation, and in delivery of excellent
tech. <br> There is no one answer, and it is up to the communities in question
to take an active role in determing the <br> future. <br><br> The next release
of OSGeo-Live is months away, so there is time to work out the details. However,
the time is now<br> to understand and engage the large and perhaps growing
distance between the FOSS Libre software world, and<br> the commercial
directions of the Java platform in all of its manifestations. Several individual
contributors have done<br> a lot to make Java on the OSGeo-Live what it is now,
and I predict it will take more insight, implementation and<br> ingenuity to
make the next release not medicore, but great. <br><br> best regards from
Berkeley, California<br><br> [0]
<a href="http://java.debian.net/blog/2016/05/whats-new-since-jessie.html" target="_blank">http://java.debian.net/blog/2016/05/whats-new-since-jessie.html</a><br>
[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language)" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language)</a><br>
[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian</a><br><br> --<br> Brian M Hamlin<br>
OSGeo California Chapter<br> <a href="http://blog.light42.com" target="_blank">blog.light42.com</a><br><br>
_______________________________________________<br> Live-demo mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:Live-demo@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">Live-demo@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
<a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo</a><br> <a href="http://live.osgeo.org" target="_blank">http://live.osgeo.org</a><br>
<a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc</a><br><br><br><br>----- End forwarded
message -----<br><br></p>
<p><br> --<br>Brian M Hamlin<br> OSGeo California Chapter<br>
<a href="http://blog.light42.com" target="_blank">blog.light42.com</a><br></p>
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