[PATCH FOR REVIEW] Allow OpenJDK to be built with the unlimited crypto policy

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> 
> >> 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.
> 

At first, yes.  Do you have any objections to me proposing it for 7u too, in due course?

> 7201205: Add Makefile configuration option to build with unlimited
> crypto in OpenJDK.
> 

Great, thanks!  I'll push it.

> 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
> >>
> >>
> >
> 

-- 
Andrew :)

Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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