On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 10:44 PM Georgy Yakovlev <gyakov...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > On Wednesday, April 17, 2019 6:31:42 PM PDT Mike Gilbert wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 3:35 PM Georgy Yakovlev <gyakov...@gentoo.org> > wrote: > > > # Georgy Yakovlev <gyakov...@gentoo.org> (17 Apr 2019) > > > # The Oracle JDK License has changed for releases starting April 16, 2019 > > > # While it may be fine to use for some usecases it's not comepletely clear > > > # what is considered "personal use" and if we can legally distribute it. > > > # License states: > > > # "You may not: > > > # make the Programs available in any manner to any third party" > > > > I don't agree with your rationale here. > > > > Gentoo does not distribute the JDK due to RESTRICT="fetch mirror" in > > the ebuild, so Oracle's license has no relevance. > > > > Oracle cannot prohibit us from distributing a shell script that moves > > some files around. That liability is on the user who runs it. > > > > We cannot force you to continue maintaining this package, but I think > > we should have a better reason for masking/removing it. If you cannot > > provide one, please just drop this to maintainer-needed. > > I've modified the mask for now, but I still believe we should drop it. > I do not maintain it at all, I only work on openjdk and a bit of icedtea. > > For a while[1] we've been modifying provided jar: > > zip -d jre/lib/rt.jar sun/misc/PostVMInitHook.class || die > > but license[2] states that > > "You may not: > ... > make the Programs available in any manner to any third party > ... > create, modify, or change the behavior of, classes, interfaces, or > subpackages that are in any way identified as "java", "javax", "sun", “oracle” > or similar convention as specified by Oracle in any naming convention > designation. > > " > > Is it even legal?
That does seem like it might cause some legal problems for users. > Java usage tracker will fail due to sandbox during builds. > > while writing this email I found out it's probably possible to disable it with > com.oracle.usagetracker.track.last.usage=false > in > /etc/oracle/java/usagetracker.properties > > need to test it If that does not work, a possible alternative would be to install a file in /etc/sandbox.d to add some path to SANDBOX_PREDICT. Anyway, this issue does seem like grounds for removal if it is not addressed by somebody.
