Oracle retires licence for distributing its Java with Linux

[lovinglinux]

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Oracle-retires-licence-for-distributing-its-Java-with-Linux-1332835.html


With a brief news item, Oracle has retired the "Operating System Distributor License for Java" (DLJ) that was created by Sun in 2006. The non-free licence had allowed Linux distributors to package and distribute Sun's, and later Oracle's, Java versions in their Linux distributions.

[beew]

Topic also pointed out that users who want to use Oracle JDK 6 or 7 instead of the OpenJDK can still download the JDK from Oracle's web site (http://oracle.com/java) and use that under the terms of the Oracle Binary licence.So does it mean that instead of installing from the partners' repo Linux users can download probably a tar ball from Oracle's website like Windows users do?

Maybe you can write a "java-aid" addon for Firefox to optimize Java for Ubuntu. :)

[forrestcupp]

Even before this license, Sun Java was packaged and in the repos. You just had to agree to its license during the installation. Can't we just go back to that, and if people don't like it, they can install OpenJDK.

[lovinglinux]

So does it mean that instead of installing from the partners' repo Linux users can download probably a tar ball from Oracle's website like Windows users do?

Yes.


Maybe you can write a "java-aid" addon for Firefox to optimize Java for Ubuntu. :)

:-)