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Date:      Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:25:03 -0800
From:      Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com>
To:        Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-java@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Java licencing
Message-ID:  <20081231022503.GA79055@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
In-Reply-To: <gjejdc$nj7$1@ger.gmane.org>
References:  <giovri$d3$1@ger.gmane.org> <20081223075034.GA10260@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <gjef9u$flg$1@ger.gmane.org> <495AC227.5080108@delphij.net> <gjejdc$nj7$1@ger.gmane.org>

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On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 02:54:38AM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:
> So it looks like OpenJDK might be clean from GPL's virality. But since
> there's no OpenJDK for FreeBSD, I'm looking at Sun's JDK.

Actually, there is OpenJDK for FreeBSD:

% uname
FreeBSD
% ./build/bsd-i586/j2sdk-image/bin/java -version
openjdk version "1.7.0-internal"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0-internal-glewis_2008_12_28_13_57-b00)
OpenJDK Client VM (build 14.0-b10, mixed mode)

You need the forest extension for Mercurial and then:

hg fclone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/bsd-port/bsd-port/

Its just not available in the ports system yet.

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