Looking at the licensing issue again, it appears the main reason for Debian (and consequently Ubuntu) to switch to OpenJDK is the proprietary nature of the Oracle JRE/JDK.
At Linux Mint, we don't have such an issue with proprietary software. We "prefer" open-source than closed-source alternatives except when there's a significant trade-off in terms of features and compatibility. So if I'm right in interpreting this license http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/terms/license/index.html and this indeed allows us to redistribute the Oracle JDK, then we're in a similar situation than with Adobe Flash... where the proprietary option is significantly better than the open-source one and the licensing allows us to use and redistribute it. Or did I read that wrong? We'll have a close look at this in preparation for Mint 13. OpenJDK is getting better and better, and the licensing on Oracle JDK isn't as restrictive as I thought... so we very well might still have the two options available to us going forward. Not to mention the possibility to use a script like Pjotr's above. In the meantime please don't hesitate to use this bug as a thread to give your opinion and thoughts about this. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/890278 Title: sun java outdated To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/890278/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
