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Re: Next steps for GNU Classpath
- From: Bill Chatfield <bill_chatfield at yahoo dot com>
- To: Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia <guille dot rodriguez at gmail dot com>, Andïï <gnu_andrew at member dot fsf dot org>
- Cc: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>, "classpath at gnu dot org" <classpath at gnu dot org>, "java at gcc dot gnu dot org" <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 14:04:23 -0700
- Subject: Re: Next steps for GNU Classpath
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I went looking for Zulu's source code. It should available since OpenJDK is GPLed. But they do not provide it unless you request it and then it looks like they only provide the parts that were based on GPL code, which implies that there is more code to their product that they aren't going to provide. That seems to violate the spirit of the GPL.
This is their readme.txt:
Certain portions of this software are based on source code from OpenJDK
(http://openjdk.java.net/) and licensed under the GNU General Public
License version 2 (GPLv2) with the Classpath Exception (http://
openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html). For a period of three years from
the date of your receipt of this software, Azul will provide upon
request, a complete machine readable copy of the source code for such
portions based on OpenJDK on a medium customarily used for software
interchange for a charge no more than the cost of physically performing
source distribution.
Please email azul_openjdk@azulsystems.com for further information.
Include this version code in your email:
Zulu 8.3.0.1 cc8d4b0a1963
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On Tue, 9/16/14, Andïï <gnu_andrew@member.fsf.org> wrote:
Subject: Re: Next steps for GNU Classpath
To: "Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia" <guille.rodriguez@gmail.com>
Cc: "Bill Chatfield" <bill_chatfield@yahoo.com>, "Andrew Haley" <aph@redhat.com>, "classpath@gnu.org" <classpath@gnu.org>, "java@gcc.gnu.org" <java@gcc.gnu.org>
Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2014, 3:56 PM
On 16 September 2014
17:01, Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia
<guille.rodriguez@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
> 2014-09-16 17:47 GMT+02:00 Bill Chatfield
<bill_chatfield@yahoo.com>:
>> OpenJDK is Linux-only. It does not
work on Windows. This defeats the purpose of Java of being
cross-platform. You might say that Windows has Oracle's
Java, but it is not GPLed. It cannot be redistributed or
bundled with an app. It is huge and copyrighted. When you
install it, it tries to screw you over by installing the Ask
Toolbar. These are problems that GCJ does not have.
>
> Just came across this
which may address some of these concerns:
>
> http://www.azulsystems.com/products/zulu
>
> --
> Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia
> guille.rodriguez@gmail.com
That's an interesting site
I haven't seen before. It claims to offer
OpenJDK 6 u42, u47, u49 and u53. However, there
is no such thing.
--
Andii
:-)