[Building Sakai] Be careful: Ubuntu's Sun JDK packages going away soon

[Earle Nietzel]

I have run sakai 2.7.x with OpenJDK 6 with no issues.

I think that Oracle wants people to move to the OpenJDK as they are going
to be adding pay for features in their release.

I remember hearing this from Java's chief architect (Mark Reinhold).
Their release currently is based on the OpenJDK with a few addons that Sun
was never able to release due to licensing, mostly related to audio and
video.

Earle

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Wolfgang Rohregger <
Wolfgang.Rohregger at mci.edu> wrote:

> We tried the OpenJDK 7 for Sakai 2.8.1 but had some problems with certain
> tests randomly failing. We didn't take the time to investigate this further.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wolfgang
>
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:
> sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] Im Auftrag von Adam Marshall
> Gesendet: Montag, 19. Dezember 2011 12:11
> An: Adams, David; production at collab.sakaiproject.org;
> sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> Betreff: Re: [Building Sakai] Be careful: Ubuntu's Sun JDK packages going
> away soon
>
> We're keen to move to OpenJDK but don't want to do this in the absence of
> central QA using this platform. This will get around all the problems that
> you list.
>
> Can anybody say when we wi9ll move to this platform?
>
> adam
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-
> > bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Adams, David
> > Sent: 17 December 2011 20:54
> > To: production at collab.sakaiproject.org;
> > sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> > Subject: [Building Sakai] Be careful: Ubuntu's Sun JDK packages going
> > away soon
> >
> > I didn't realize this was coming so I wanted to make sure everyone
> > here was
> > aware:
> >
> > Due to some licensing changes from Oracle, open OS distributors are no
> > longer allowed to distribute the JDK. Canonical has announced [1] that
> > it will soon be removing the Sun JDK packages from its partner
> > repository. But not only will the packages no longer be available for
> > new installation, but if you have the Sun JDK packages already
> > installed and run an apt-get update, Java WILL BE REMOVED from your
> > system. To continue using the Sun JDK, you will have to download and
> install it manually.
> >
> > I'm not sure how this will affect Debian or other open Linux
> > distributions, but I assume at the very least that no new updates will
> > be coming for JDK 6. In any case, it may be wise to install and update
> > Java yourself if you don't already do so (it's pretty easy to do).
> >
> > [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2011-
> > December/001528.html
> >
> >
> > David Adams
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