Oracle terminate DLJ - does this have consequences for FreeBSD

[Heiner Strauss]

Am 12/18/11 21:02, schrieb Matthew Seaman:
> On 18/12/2011 19:13, Rainer Duffner wrote:
>> seems this already happened in August.
>>
>> Found on slashdot now, original article here:
>>
>> http://robilad.livejournal.com/90792.html
>>
>> http://jdk-distros.java.net/
>>
>>
>> Does that have any consequences for diablo-jdk?
>>
>> Ubuntu is, as usual, going berserk and apparently considers deleting it from the installed base....
> Yeah.  It means FreeBSD gets to provide the standard Java distribution
> -- which is now OpenJDK -- free to use, and without itself having to
> stump up thousands of dollars via the FreeBSD Foundation simply for a
> place at the table.
>
> This is Java coming into line with the other big languages of the
> Internet age (perl, python, php, etc.), casting off the restrictive
> licensing it had hobbled itself with initially and so enabling itself to
> succeed in a way commensurate with its technical quality[*].
>
> diablo-jdk was an unfortunate necessity for a while.  It no longer is,
> and that's really good news.
>
> 	Cheers,
>
> 	Matthew
>
> [*] GPLv2 rather than a BSD-style license, but still a big step forwards.
>
And how do you bootstrap it ?