[OpenIndiana-discuss] abandoned support for OpenOffice, Miozilla Firefox, Adobe Flash, etc.

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> Message du 12/02/13 16:22
> De : "Peter Tribble" 
> A : "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" 
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> Objet : Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] abandoned support for OpenOffice, Miozilla Firefox, Adobe Flash, etc.
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> > Also in the same subject matter - I wonder if the base VirtualBox 4.x
> > (the GPLed part) software can be redistributed similarly - i.e. the
> > SVR4 package from Oracle converted into IPS for automatic updates, or
> > a recompilation of the source codes?..
> 
> It ought to be clear that if it actually is licensed under GPL then you can
> redistribute it. And the VBox licensing FAQ says that redistribution of the
> base binaries (but not the extension pack) is fine.
> 
> > And if it is not risky to let the OS auto-update something like that?
> >
> > What about tarballed Java releases?
> 
> Java redistribution is, um, messy. My reading of it (and no, I'm not a
> lawyer) is that you can't. There's an exception only if bundled with your
> java application. So shipping it with the OS isn't possible.
> 
> I believe the idea was that distributions would use OpenJDK instead.
> 
> On that topic, anyone tried building OpenJDK on an Illumos distro?

OpenJDK 7 and 8 are available in the SFE repository but icedtead-web (the firefox plugin) is missing.
All BSD and most of Linux distros are icedtea-web/openjdk java powered.

gnash (flash replacement working and crashing sometimes under open/free/netBSD) is a not so bad player for flash but probably very hard to
compile.


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