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Michael Bieniosek commented on HADOOP-2325:
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To quote from the bikemonkey link:
{quote}
Licensing
The Mac OS X work is based heavily on the BSD Java port, which is licensed
under the JRL. The BSDs develop Java under the JRL; FreeBSD has negotiated a
license with Sun to distribute FreeBSD Java binaries based on the JRL sources.
As the Mac port stabilizes, I am merging my work upstream into the BSD port,
and in turn, it is a goal of the FreeBSD Java project to merge their work into
OpenJDK. I've signed a Sun Contributor Agreement in preparation for this, and
an OpenJDK Porters group has been proposed:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.openjdk.general/630
While the JRL makes this initial port possible, OpenJDK's GPLv2+CE licensing
makes development and distribution far simpler. I hope to contribute this work
to OpenJDK as soon as is feasible.
{quote}
So, while IANAL, it appears this can only be used under JRL. But JRL only
permits Research Use, defining it as:
{quote}
"Research Use" means research, evaluation, or development for the
purpose of advancing knowledge, teaching, learning, or customizing the
Technology or Modifications for personal use. Research Use expressly
excludes use or distribution for direct or indirect commercial
(including strategic) gain or advantage.
{quote}
So I suspect that running hadoop client libraries at a commercial search engine
does not fall under Research Use.
> Require Java 6 for release 0.16.
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> Key: HADOOP-2325
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2325
> Project: Hadoop
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: build
> Reporter: Doug Cutting
> Fix For: 0.16.0
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> We should require Java 6 for release 0.16. Java 6 is now available for OS/X.
> Hadoop performs much better on Java 6. And, finally, there are features of
> Java 6 (like 'df') that would be nice to use.
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