OpenJDK projects promoting proprietary builds

[David Herron]

Unless something has changed since I left the OpenJDK project isn't
publishing binary builds.

The situation when I was still there was JDK builds were being published but
not OpenJDK builds.

That was a conscious decision to not do so.

Mebbe the JDK7 build announcements shouldn't be published on OpenJDK mailing
lists for the same reason as I stopped (last fall) sending DLJ announcements
to OpenJDK mailing lists?

- David Herron
http://davidherron.com


On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp.org> wrote:

> Hi Geir,
>
> On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 13:06 -0400, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
> > On May 29, 2009, at 12:56 PM, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> > > The terms are particularly anti-social since they explicitly forbid
> > > sharing the binaries with others, learning what the corresponding
> > > source code is, modifying or creating any derivative works, and
> > > agreeing that Sun will be "irreparably harmed" if you don't keep
> > > everything you learn from those binaries confidential.
> >
> > Imagine!  There's a downside for giving sun complete copyright (via
> > joint assignment)!  Whoda thought!
>
> Of course. That is a reason to think long and hard before signing the
> SCA in its current form, if you wish to do that. But that is a different
> issue. What Sun does with its own internal proprietary forks is their
> business. This is about OpenJDK project themselves publishing and
> promoting proprietary builds, which IMHO is not done.
>
> > > Could we please have OpenJDK projects only publish artifacts under the
> > > terms listed at http://openjdk.java.net/legal/
> > >
> > > Those terms even allows publishing binaries that contain some of the
> > > proprietary blobs as long as the rest is published under the GPL,
> > > thanks to the assembly exception, if that really is necessary (and
> > > it really shouldn't be necessary anymore since people have been
> > > publishing full GPLed builds for almost 2 years now).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
>