-------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Cameron Shorter <[email protected]> > Reply-to: OSGeo Discussions <[email protected]> > To: Hamish <[email protected]>, [email protected] > <[email protected]>, OSGeo Discussions > <[email protected]> > Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Live-demo] Java apps: better get working > on your OpenJDK port ... > Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:43:51 +1100 > > I'm forwarding this email onto the OSGeo-Discuss list, as Hamish has > identified the high impact implications of Sun/Oracle licencing, which > seems to imply that most OSGeo java based projects will need to start > supporting OpenJDK if they wish to support most users on linux based > operating systems. > > ... > > As outlined by Hamish below, the Sun/Oracle Java cannot legally be > installed using ubuntu installers - people will need to download from > the Oracle website instead. > We possibly could use Sun Java with the next, March 2012 based OSGeo 5.5 > release (as we are basing upon the old Xubuntu 11.04), but we would > probably not be able to legally include any java based security updates. > > For OSGeo-Live 6, for FOSS4G 2012 in Sept, we will likely only have the > option of using OpenJDK and not Sun-Java. > > I'd like to hear advice from each Java based projects as to the > feasibility of migrating to OpenJDK, and what you recommend we do on the > OSGeo-Live project. > > Please respond on the [email protected] list. > > > On 21/12/2011 9:53 AM, Hamish wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > Live-demo mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo > > http://live.osgeo.org > > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc > > > -- > Cameron Shorter > Geospatial Solutions Manager > Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 > Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 > > Think Globally, Fix Locally > Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source > http://www.lisasoft.com > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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