Sorry for the concern I just remember reading a license change on oracle
jre and jdk as of java 11 i belive it was.

Great game nice to see development still on going :)

Wish I had time to play more :)

Jonathan Aquilina


On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 9:38 AM Michael T. Pope <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 08:50:48 +0200
> Jonathan Aquilina <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I was under the impression and it was an incorrect one that freecol was
> > built on the oracle version of java. If its based on openjdk no concern
> > here.
>
> The FreeCol project does not require a specific Java implementation.  If
> someone wants to build it on openjdk, oracle Java, or
> shark-mounted-laser Java that is fine.  We do specify a minimum Java
> language version, because we are primarily concerned with making code +
> artwork + game resources rather than packaging.
>
> That said, we have traditionally distributed freecol packaged for various
> platforms from the website as a convenience.  The .jar files there are
> built with whatever-the-release-manager-is-using Java.  When I am the
> release manager that has been openjdk, because that is conveniently
> installed on my main development machine.  Perhaps it was oracle Java in
> the past, I do not know.  I am pretty sure we have people running our .jar
> or derivatives on non-openjdk run time environments, which is good.
>
> Cheers,
> Mike Pope
>
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