Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:18:33 -0700 From: Landon Fuller <landonf@threerings.net> To: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: JDK 1.5 Binaries Message-ID: <804DFA8E-B2AC-4111-A297-3E7E76A769C4@threerings.net> In-Reply-To: <20060405150803.GA43211@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <4433C92E.2060303@thegeeklord.com> <20060405150803.GA43211@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --Apple-Mail-3--945010876 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed On Apr 5, 2006, at 08:08, Greg Lewis wrote: > On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 09:42:06AM -0400, Adam Stroud wrote: >> I have seen on the FreeBSD foundation site that the 1.5 JDK >> binaries are >> supposed to be released by today. Does anyone what the status of >> this is? > > They'll be released sometime today. As a company, our use of FreeBSD/Java in a production environment has been predicated on the ability to fix any show-stopper bugs that we might stumble upon. In contributing these fixes to the FreeBSD community we hoped to improve the state of Java on the platform, thereby increasing the size of the user base and encouraging further contributions by other entities -- a cyclical process, as it were. In this regard we've found, fixed, and submitted patches for a few issues. As illustrated by the membar crasher, there will likely continue to be serious, show-stopper bugs in the FreeBSD Java port, and the ability to fix these is critical to our operation. Sun's new JIUL license intends to solve this problem for the greater Java community by allowing enterprises to find and fix issues internally, and submit their changes to Sun for inclusion in a future release. Sun has also introduced replacements for the SCSL: the Java Research License and the Java Distribution License. Meanwhile, the existing patchset is (was?) licensed under the SCSL. All these licenses are relatively complex, and I'm not a lawyer, leaving me wondering the following: As an external entity, is there any way we can run the latest releases of Java while still having access to the source and contributing any fixes to the FreeBSD Java project? "Thank you" to everyone who has contributed to the Java port and the creation, testing, and release of Java 1.5 binaries, Landon Fuller --Apple-Mail-3--945010876 content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453; name=PGP.sig content-description: This is a digitally signed message part content-disposition: inline; filename=PGP.sig content-transfer-encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFEPUR5lplZCE/15mMRAu/TAJ91gtJkAfWCTLdzM+TIf6uKUX5sFQCfTOPp y5Dx0IMKYBeKB7Mg0S7I5Y8= =SYr2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail-3--945010876--
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