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

[Andrew Hughes]

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

All done: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/9e879c0288c2

> > 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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> Andrew :)
> 
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