[PATCH FOR REVIEW] Allow OpenJDK to be built with the unlimited crypto policy
Brad Wetmore
bradford.wetmore at oracle.com
Wed Sep 26 16:16:21 UTC 2012
>> Will you be putting this back yourself? If so let me know when you
>> go
>> in, and I can update the bug once you're in.
>>
>
> I will, though I'll need a bug ID for it. I presume tl is ok as the
> forest to use?
This going into 8? Then yes.
7201205: Add Makefile configuration option to build with unlimited
crypto in OpenJDK.
Brad
>> Mark wrote:
>> > The summary is that it was just easier to remove unused classes
>> > that
>> > made the code tricky to understand for no good reason except for
>> > some
>> > secret proprietary code.
>>
>> Unfortunately, Oracle and some of our commercial (non-OpenJDK)
>> licensees
>> still depend on that tricky code. :( I'd personally love to strip
>> it
>> all out, but we have to balance all of its consumers (Oracle SE and
>> ME,
>> commercial source/binary licensees, OpenJDK, etc.)
>>
>> Andrew wrote:
>> > I'm sure it would be easy enough to dump those classes if Oracle
>> > started producing OpenJDK binaries licensed under the GPL, rather
>> > than binaries from their proprietary fork.
>>
>> Unfortunately, not likely in our current export/import climate.
>>
>
> Yes, this is what I thought. We just have to make sure to test well
> before shipping binaries.
>
>> Brad
>>
>>
>
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