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

[Brad Wetmore]

It's now marked as resolved.

Thanks,

Brad


On 9/27/2012 9:58 AM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
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>> ----- Original Message -----
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>>>>> 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.
>>
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> All done: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/9e879c0288c2
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>>> 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 :)
>>
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