free replacement for java to run .jnlp

Mon Oct 6 18:00:12 UTC 2008

On 10/06/2008 04:50 PM, Kjetil Halvorsen wrote:
> Thanks.

Hi Kjetil

> I meant "free" as in freedom, not as in gratis. I know the stuff from SUN
> are gratis.

OpenJDK[0] is an Open Source project from Sun Microsystems (License GNU 
GPL). See Wikipedia[1] for more Infos.

There are OpenJDK packages for Debian Lenny[2]. So I guess Ubuntu will 
copycat them and include in next release.

> Kjetil

kind regards
Sven

[0] http://openjdk.java.net/
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenJDK
[2] http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=openjdk