https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68791

--- Comment #22 from Robinson Tryon (qubit) <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to david.vantyghem from comment #0)
> ...It would be great to add it to LibreOffice, so
> LibreOffice would become a 100 % free software.
> OpenJDK binaries : https://github.com/alexkasko/openjdk-unofficial-builds

FWIW, LibreOffice is 100% Free Software. It's up to the user if they want to
run it on a Windows machine, or use a proprietary build of Java in conjunction
with it...

(In reply to david.vantyghem from comment #18)
> There are a lot of freesoftware projects or a lot of Debian packages or a
> lot of Firefox OS softwares that are maintained by one or 2 people.

Oh, certainly. I just don't know anything about Alex, and I don't know if
anyone else here does.

> If you consider that a free software project must not be used nor helped
> because of the number of its maintainers, so you must use Windows or an
> iPhone and you will be quiet.

*sigh*

The irony here is that this bug concerns running LibreOffice on *Windows*, a
proprietary OS. Please remember that we're doing the best we can with the
resources that we have.

> I'm not sure that the number of maintainers is
> really a good indicator for choosing or not a free software, especially when
> you are using an awful proprietary software instead.

Or we could just reduce our dependence on Java, too :-)

I think that you've got your heart in the right place, but I don't think that
this current conversation in the bug tracker is convincing us that LibreOffice
should include this particular build of Java with our Windows installers.

What about other 100% FOSS Windows builds of the OpenJDK? Seems like someone
has a company that provides them, and it might be worth your time to
investigate:
http://www.azulsystems.com/products/zulu

David, if you really want to see this through, here's how I suggest you do it:
1) Start testing LibreOffice against these Windows-based OpenJDK builds
2) Take some notes and see if you're running into any compatibility bugs
3) Help us to reduce the LibreOffice dependencies on Java
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Java
4) Be patient

Thanks,
--R

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