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

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> It's now marked as resolved.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brad
> 

Great.  Thanks!  Glad to get this finally resolved.

I'll let it promote through to 8, then suggest it for 7u.

> 
> On 9/27/2012 9:58 AM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> >
> >
> > ----- 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
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Andrew :)
> >>
> >> Free Java Software Engineer
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> 

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Andrew :)

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