OpenJDK status on FreeBSD

[Xin LI]

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Maho NAKATA wrote:
| From: Dave <dfeustel at mindspring.com>
| Subject: Re: OpenJDK status on FreeBSD
| Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:12:39 -0700 (PDT)
|
|> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 09:54:34AM +0900, Maho NAKATA wrote:
|>> Dear FreeBSD Java team
|>> (Cc: Kay Ramme),
|>>
|>> I'm Nakata Maho who is maintaining OpenOffice.org FreeBSD ports
|>> for long time. Here I read Kay's blog entry
|>> http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/switching_to_java_1_5
|>> and
|>> he is collecting the status of OpenJDK for platforms.
|>> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenJDK
|>>
|>> So - I'd like to ask you about OpenJDK porting status.
|>> AFAIK, it is not available in the ports tree :)
|>> -- Nakata Maho http://accc.riken.jp/maho/
|> JDKs and JREs for FreeBSD are available from
|> http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml.
|>
|> Tarballs are available now, packages will be available in a few days.
| :)
| Thanks for your reply...but I'd like to know OpenJDK status,
| and it seems Javas we can download here
| http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml.
| are all 1.6.0. Is OpenJDK==1.6.0?

I don't think so.  OpenJDK is newer version and is covered under GPLv2.

Cheers,
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Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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