Why isn Canonical including OpenJDK in Ubuntu 7.04?
Last November Sun announced the plan to open source our Java SE implementation under the GPL. At that time major components of the platform including the Java programming language compiler and the HotSpot virtual machine source code were published as part of the OpenJDK project. As previously communicated, Sun plans to make a completely buildable implementation of OpenJDK during the first half of 2007. However as the full JDK was not available in time for inclusion in the 7.04 release the timing did not allow including OpenJDK. Sun and Canonical are working together on packaging OpenJDK such that an open source implementation of the Java SE Platform can be included in the next Ubuntu release.
