The Truth Behind the Java on Linux Discussion

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Found this article. Apparently the "OpenJDK" is the reference point for the new version of Java (7), and is primarily maintained by Oracle. There have just been some updates to licensing and the move to the GPL'd Java plugin is kind of being forced.

Java is not being removed from Ubuntu. OpenJDK is the open source version Java' date=' is developed primarily by Oracle, is becoming the reference implementation and [/size']is available in Ubuntu. The Sun-Java packages under the DLJ were a temporary stop-gap we put in place before Java was liberated as GPL. Removing these packages is just housekeeping. There are some programs in the Ubuntu repository that will need to do rework on their dependencies (Minecraft in particular), but this is an entirely expected lifecycle step and actually I'm surprised it's not happened before.

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