Fwd: Java is now 100% free - maybe we should include it by default?

[William Tracy]

Oops, I replied directly to Matthias by mistake. Sorry.


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From: William Tracy <afishionado at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 7:07 PM
Subject: Re: Java is now 100% free - maybe we should include it by default?
To: Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu.com>


On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Despite the two blogs the current OpenJDK code drops still contain some code
> which is incompatible with our main section. So currently not a single
> distribution ships a completely free OpenJDK package, neither Fedora, Gentoo,
> nor Ubuntu.

I thought the discussion was about include *IcedTea* in main--which is
OpenJDK with the last bits of proprietary code replaced with GNU
Classpath code.

IcedTea just passed the TCK compatibility test, which makes it
eligible to be certified by Sun as actual Java.

And yes, Fedora ships a completely free IcedTea JDK.

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William Tracy
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