Re: [RFC-DRAFT] Debian-Java point of view about JDK under the GPL

[Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

Andrew Haley writes:
> Matthias Klose writes:
>  > Arnaud Vandyck writes:
>  > > Hi debian-java team,
>  > > 
>  > > I'd like us to write a common position statement about the jdk under
>  > > the gpl. I think these points should be mentioned:
>  > > 
>  > > o This is really a good thing for us because it is now really the GPL
>  > > (+Classpath exception), not a MPL like license;
>  > > 
>  > > o Sun worked hard to have the jdk in Debian for some time now. (My
>  > > POV: not the right way, but they did it, thanks ;-));
>  > > 
>  > > o Let be patient. There is still a lot of work for everything to be integrated;
>  > 
>  >   o Debian currently supports java compatible infrastructure on more
>  >     archs than the sun jdk supports.  I would like to pick up the ideas
>  >     from the Oldenburg meeting last year for arch dependent packages
>  >     default-jre and default-jdk.
> 
> Yeah.  It would be nice to try to figure out where Java run-times for
> the various architectures are going to come from.
> 
> What architectures do you support with the Sun JRE?

currently none; delaying that until the SDK is available ...

  Matthias