Java licencing

[Greg Lewis]

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 02:54:38AM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:
> So it looks like OpenJDK might be clean from GPL's virality. But since
> there's no OpenJDK for FreeBSD, I'm looking at Sun's JDK.

Actually, there is OpenJDK for FreeBSD:

% uname
FreeBSD
% ./build/bsd-i586/j2sdk-image/bin/java -version
openjdk version "1.7.0-internal"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0-internal-glewis_2008_12_28_13_57-b00)
OpenJDK Client VM (build 14.0-b10, mixed mode)

You need the forest extension for Mercurial and then:

hg fclone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/bsd-port/bsd-port/

Its just not available in the ports system yet.

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