| Re: [epp-dev] Minimum BREE for EPP Neon |
On 31 Jul 2015, at 12:45, Mike Milinkovich wrote:
On 31/07/2015 6:39 AM, Kaloyan Raev wrote:
OK. I see...
What about the OpenJDK? It is open source. If it is possible to build a suitable JRE binary distribution out of the open source code, will be there any legal issue to be redistributed by the EPP?
I'm not sure. That would require a deep analysis of OpenJDK, and its dependencies.
There are three issues with OpenJDK to solve:
A) is it open source
B) can it be distributed from eclipse
C) where to find an openjdk distribution; and who will maintain it ?
For A - then yes, OpenJDK is open source and mainly licensed under GPL with Classpath exception(s).
For B - I actually think this should be possible today in similar fashion we ship SWT bindings to GPL binaries for GTK on linux platform - I think OpenJDK would fall in the bucket of "works with" and as long as there are no hard dependencies to the distributed JDK we should be good.
C - is probably the biggest issue since afaik there are no officially supported builds of openjdk that works on all platforms similar to Oracle and one that comes with regular security updates etc.
/max
On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Mike Milinkovich <mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
On 31/07/2015 4:40 AM, Kaloyan Raev wrote:
AFAICS, the license for the Oracle JRE [1] allows redistribution. Why the terms are not compatible with EPL?The Eclipse Foundation only distributes open source code. The JRE
is not under an open source license.--
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