Oracle recently decided to remove the DLJ (Operating System Distributor License for Java) from their license on their own proprietary implementation of java [1]. For a good article explaining the situation, please refer to [2]. This means that you will have to use openjdk6 from [community] or get jre/jdk (java 7) and jre6/jdk6 (java 6) from the AUR. My personal opinion is that although openjdk6 is more buggy, I encourage everyone to use it and report bugs against it from now on. This will be better for linux in the long run. I will not be maintaining these packages in the AUR anymore. Oracle's original blog post [1] - http://robilad.livejournal.com/90792.html Article explaining the move [2] - http://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/sylvestre/2011/08/26/sun_java6_packages_removed_from_debian_u