On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 9:56 AM alain rastoul <alain.rest...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > As I understand (correct me if I'm wrong) this is not a about a specific > platform (windows) JDK, but a change between Oracle and OpenJDK > relationship. > Yes. > OpenJDK will not benefit from all Oracle improvments/corrections, > Oracle will give back it's source code for new JDK version to OpenJDK > every 6 month, just for the new versions, not it's bug fixes/patches or > whatever is in it's "LTS" version code, > No, as the quoted text later in your e-mail suggests, Oracle will be an active contributor to OpenJDK project and all their fixes will go to the latest released OpenJDK version. It will not be a source dump every 6 months. It will be a steady stream of commits. That means, Oracle employees will be committing their fixes into OpenJDK master/devel branch (whatever the convention is), but they will not be backporting the fixes for older OpenJDK releases as you said (well, they will, internally, but they will not publish the result into any OpenJDK "maintenance" branches.). That's where linux distros and other maintainers I mentioned in my previous e-mail have to step in. I only mentioned Windows because for Linux, we have all those distros (like CentOS, maybe Ubuntu...) that will step up here. It is not clear who will maintain WIndows LTS build and MacOS LTS build of OpenJDK. So there will be only Oracle's JDK LTS (not free), or new OpenJDK > release every 6 month for windows, linux & mac. > Plus OpenJDK patch releases in the 6 month period, of course. > No OpenJDK LTS with security patches, unless someone else do the LTS > patch/bug fixes work. > > "For the first 6 months of Java 11’s life, Oracle will be providing > GPL+CE licensed $free zero-cost downloads at jdk.java.net with security > patches. To get GPL+CE licensed $free zero-cost update releases of Java > 11 after the first six months, you are likely to need to obtain them > from a different URL and a different build team." > from > > https://jaxenter.com/oracle-jdk-builds-openjdk-builds-difference-149318.html > -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards Jiri Daněk Messaging QA
