Java licencing

[Ivan Voras]

Greg Lewis wrote:
> 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.

Thank's for the work!
I hope you can get something in ports soon :)

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