Considering Red Hat Extras (EL3/4) channels have included the Sun JRE/JDK _prior_ to the 2006+ DLJ, I'd say there's probably another agreement already in-place with Red Hat for feeding those, and the newer Supplementary (EL5+) channels. Remember, the Extras/Supplementary channels have always been the one channel where Red Hat's license and distribution is atypical -- i.e., not always done by Red Hat and not always open source / 100% redistributable without indemnification issues.
However, in the absolute "worst case scenario" -- and/or say if Red Hat wanted to do away with this separate agreement and external dependency -- this would mean Red Hat would shift to OpenJDK 1.6.0 going forward, and mark the Sun-Oracle JRE/JDK packages as obsoleted. While this would be an ideal move for the future, I don't see this happening unless Red Hat can guarantee 100% API/ABI compatibility. It sounds like representatives of Oracle are saying this -- although that maybe just the party line and there are slight ABI/API issues with moving to the OpenJDK, at least for 1.6.0. In any and all cases, this is a question for your Red Hat representative. I am merely commenting on the history of the Extra channels, and the fact that I've always seen Red Hat do what's in the best interest of its customers. After all, if moving to the OpenJDK is 100% ABI/API compatible, it also helps downstream "EL rebuilds" as well, beyond Red Hat. Red Hat prefers to do open source whenever possible, and the Extras/Supplementary channels are the "necessary evil" for ISV certification that it doesn't prefer to offer if it does not need to. ----- Original Message ----- From: Rainer Traut <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 9:18 AM Hi, it looks as though Oracle has revoked the license to include their JDK: http://jdk-distros.java.net/ Does this mean, there will be no more JDK 1.6.0.27+ update from redhat? _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
