Comments on: OpenJDK and BSD https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2008/11/05/openjdk-and-bsd/ A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD. Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:09:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Help Wanted · DragonFly BSD Digest https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2008/11/05/openjdk-and-bsd/comment-page-1/#comment-28458 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:09:32 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/?p=3355#comment-28458 […] looks like there’s already BSD-specific patches for OpenJDK according to commenter Samh; anyone want to see how well these would work for […]

]]> By: Samh https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2008/11/05/openjdk-and-bsd/comment-page-1/#comment-28455 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:06:38 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/?p=3355#comment-28455 I spoke with Dalibor Topic about OpenJDK at OSCON.

It’s actually JDK 7, not 6, it’s all to do with the licensing.

Landon Fuller has binaries available for Darwin[1], in fact , reading the original proposal email[2] it appears there are already patches for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and MacOS X, the BSD porters project means the patches have been accepted by OpenJDK.

[1]http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/java/OpenJDK_7_Binaries.20080820.html
[2]http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/porters-dev/2008-July/000170.html

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