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Donald Smith commented on WHIRR-579:
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Hi,
I'm Donald Smith, and am a Product Manager in the Java SE PM team.
I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but it is true that the terms need to be
accepted on download from Oracle. The license does allow for internal only
redistribution of the installer, but not external/publicly (see [1]).
This issue has been noted elsewhere as well:
http://issues.hudson-ci.org/browse/HUDSON-9016
https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-11039
We are aware this is an inconvenience for build communities, and others like
yours, and would like to address it. Unfortunately, it's going to take some
time - probably more time than you will be happy with, and I'm sorry about
that, but I want to be honest.
In the meantime, we hope that using OpenJDK is viable, relying on your Linux
distro, or relying on the end user to already have a JDK/JRE installed
somewhere internally. I'm not familiar with the exact use cases you're dealing
with, but you might also want to explore shipping the JRE with your
application, which is described in more detail in [2], Section C - may not work
for you, but I know it does for some.
Cheers,
- Don (@DonaldOJDK)
[1] - http://www.java.com/en/download/faq/distribution.xml
[2] - http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/terms/license/index.html
> sun jdk install fails
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>
> Key: WHIRR-579
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WHIRR-579
> Project: Whirr
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: service/hadoop
> Affects Versions: 0.7.1
> Environment: any
> Reporter: Antonio Piccolboni
> Attachments: WHIRR-579.patch
>
>
> Due to changes in licensing terms, automatic download from Oracle of the
> sunjdk is not working. Hence Hadoop installs but fails to launch. To add
> insult to injury, launch-cluster doesn't fail and I couldn't find a related
> message in the logs. Potential workarounds need to take into account that it
> seems like a human has to click on the dreaded Oracle TOS (disclaimer: I am
> not a lawyer and will never be). How to make that happen with whirr is
> unclear. The option of not supporting sunjdk seems unappealing as there is
> limited testing experience with it, I hear from people at Cloudera. But the
> apache hadoop compatibility page states that that sunjdk is needed only for
> building. Clarity on this would be helpful to plan ahead.
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