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See the link I sent earlier[1]; it seems that this is more to do with OpenJDK being the reference implementation going forward.
</div><div><br></div><div>The license / distribution trouble was always in place ... and they had a workaround going. Now that OpenJDK is reference implementation; they are starting to retire their workaround.</div><div>-- <br>Jody Garnett</div><div>[1] <a href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2011/12/why-java-isnt-dead-on-ubuntu/index.htm">http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2011/12/why-java-isnt-dead-on-ubuntu/index.htm</a><br><div><br></div></div>
<p style="color: #A0A0A8;">On Thursday, 22 December 2011 at 6:43 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:</p>
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<span><div><div><div>I'm forwarding this email onto the OSGeo-Discuss list, as Hamish has </div><div>identified the high impact implications of Sun/Oracle licencing, which </div><div>seems to imply that most OSGeo java based projects will need to start </div><div>supporting OpenJDK if they wish to support most users on linux based </div><div>operating systems.</div><div><br></div><div>...</div><div><br></div><div>As outlined by Hamish below, the Sun/Oracle Java cannot legally be </div><div>installed using ubuntu installers - people will need to download from </div><div>the Oracle website instead.</div><div>We possibly could use Sun Java with the next, March 2012 based OSGeo 5.5 </div><div>release (as we are basing upon the old Xubuntu 11.04), but we would </div><div>probably not be able to legally include any java based security updates.</div><div><br></div><div>For OSGeo-Live 6, for FOSS4G 2012 in Sept, we will likely only have the </div><div>option of using OpenJDK and not Sun-Java.</div><div><br></div><div>I'd like to hear advice from each Java based projects as to the </div><div>feasibility of migrating to OpenJDK, and what you recommend we do on the </div><div>OSGeo-Live project.</div><div><br></div><div>Please respond on the <a href="mailto:live-demo@lists.osgeo.org">live-demo@lists.osgeo.org</a> list.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On 21/12/2011 9:53 AM, Hamish wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>as we suspected would happen eventually, Oracle is</div><div>pulling the rug out and retiring their Java-6 Open</div><div>Distribution license, so in future end-users will</div><div>have to download it themselves. thus anything which</div><div>doesn't work with OpenJDK is going to be SOL very</div><div>soon as we can't legally ship Sun's Java6 anymore.</div><div>dunno if that also applies to the JAI library</div><div>which is in the same license boat.</div><div><br></div><div>on the plus side:</div><div>-OpenJDK has come a really long way recently</div><div>-hey maybe this frees us up some disc space</div><div><br></div><div>I don't know if it will still be in the 11.04 repos</div><div>(as anything other than a wrapper package that says</div><div>it isn't there any more) by the time of our final</div><div>build; the java browser plugin is already disabled</div><div>in 10.04LTS+ as ubuntu aren't allowed to distribute</div><div>bug fixes to known security holes in it.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2011-December/001528.html">https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2011-December/001528.html</a> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://robilad.livejournal.com/90792.html">http://robilad.livejournal.com/90792.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>If you want to live dangerously and hold on to what</div><div>you've got, before it gets removed by a security</div><div>update:</div><div><br></div><div>sudo aptitude hold sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jre sun-java6-jdk</div><div><br></div><div>sudo su</div><div>echo "sun-java6-jdk hold" | dpkg --set-selections</div><div>echo "sun-java6-jre hold" | dpkg --set-selections</div><div>echo "sun-java6-bin hold" | dpkg --set-selections</div><div><br></div><div>(I consider the browser plugin to be a no-hoper so</div><div>leave it out of the above)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>have fun,</div><div>Hamish</div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>Live-demo mailing list</div><div><a href="mailto:Live-demo@lists.osgeo.org">Live-demo@lists.osgeo.org</a></div><div><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo</a></div><div><a href="http://live.osgeo.org">http://live.osgeo.org</a></div><div><a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc</a></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>Cameron Shorter</div><div>Geospatial Solutions Manager</div><div>Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050</div><div>Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254</div><div><br></div><div>Think Globally, Fix Locally</div><div>Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source</div><div><a href="http://www.lisasoft.com">http://www.lisasoft.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>Discuss mailing list</div><div><a href="mailto:Discuss@lists.osgeo.org">Discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a></div><div><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a></div></div></div></span>
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