[Live-demo] Java apps: better get working on your OpenJDK port ...

[Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas]

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El 20/12/11 23:53, Hamish escribió:
> Hi,
> 
> as we suspected would happen eventually, Oracle is
> pulling the rug out and retiring their Java-6 Open
> Distribution license, so in future end-users will
> have to download it themselves. thus anything which
> doesn't work with OpenJDK is going to be SOL very
> soon as we can't legally ship Sun's Java6 anymore.
> dunno if that also applies to the JAI library
> which is in the same license boat.
> 
> on the plus side:
> -OpenJDK has come a really long way recently
> -hey maybe this frees us up some disc space ;-)
> 
> I don't know if it will still be in the 11.04 repos
> (as anything other than a wrapper package that says
> it isn't there any more) by the time of our final
> build; the java browser plugin is already disabled
> in 10.04LTS+ as ubuntu aren't allowed to distribute
> bug fixes to known security holes in it.
> 
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2011-December/001528.html
> 
> http://robilad.livejournal.com/90792.html
> 
> 
> If you want to live dangerously and hold on to what
> you've got, before it gets removed by a security
> update:
> 
> sudo aptitude hold sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jre  sun-java6-jdk
> 
> sudo su
> echo "sun-java6-jdk hold" | dpkg --set-selections
> echo "sun-java6-jre hold" | dpkg --set-selections
> echo "sun-java6-bin hold" | dpkg --set-selections
> 
> (I consider the browser plugin to be a no-hoper so
> leave it out of the above)
> 
> 
> have fun,
> Hamish


The gvSIG debian package of the OSGeo Live works with OpenJDK so from
our part is ok, with the proper testing, script tweaking, etc.

Thanks for the notice Hamish

- -- 
Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas
http://es.osgeo.org
http://jorgesanz.net
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