Change in Java SE 7 Reference Implementation license

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 08:41 Wed 20 Jul     , mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
> 2011/6/9 7:33 -0700, mark.reinhold at oracle.com:
> > FYI, Oracle will be providing Reference Implementations for Java SE 7
> > (JSR 336) under both the GPL (with the Classpath Exception) as well as
> > the traditional commercial BCL (Binary Code License).
> 
> The RI binaries are now available: http://jdk7.java.net/java-se-7-ri
> 

I thought the release wasn't until the 28th?  Congrats. on getting it done early!

But aren't these kinda useless if they don't get security updates?
Will there be any useful GPL binaries?

> - Mark

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