Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:54:01 +0700 From: =?UTF-8?B?IkMuIEJlcmdzdHLDtm0i?= <cbergstrom@pathscale.com> To: Jonathan McKeown <j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask... Message-ID: <4C90CFF9.20206@pathscale.com> In-Reply-To: <201009151546.16746.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> References: <AANLkTi=7sTm12NUdAeRrX1ZUsSveS9k7dk=hc%2BgWV9jK@mail.gmail.com> <4C906D49.5090500@gmail.com> <20100915070241.23391390@scorpio> <201009151546.16746.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za>
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Jonathan McKeown wrote: > > Yes. It lies with Sun and Oracle, and the licensing terms that prevent the > FreeBSD project from distributing modified Java packages. More generally, the > problem lies with companies who won't support FreeBSD but also prevent the > project from supporting their product itself. > I've been wanting to ignore this thread because I know the amount of work involved, but.... #1 Why doesn't someone sign-up and get the OpenJDK validation suite? #2 Why doesn't someone pull Icedtea6, build it and then run the OpenJDK validation suite? I don't know if waiting for others is going to get the desired results in this case.. After the project is rolling I'm happy to help make suggestions or give a hand with how to make Hotspot and the whole JDK a little better performance. Thanks ./C
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