Change in Java SE 7 Reference Implementation license

[Mark Wielaard]

On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 15:07 -0700, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
> 2011/7/20 14:07 -0700, ahughes at redhat.com:
> > On 08:41 Wed 20 Jul, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
> >> 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!
> 
> Shipping the RI is part of finishing the JCP Final Release,
> which is a different thing from shipping a supported product.
> 
> > But aren't these kinda useless if they don't get security updates?
> 
> They're meant only for testing and reference use, primarily
> by implementors trying to get their implementations to pass
> the JCK.
> 
> > Will there be any useful GPL binaries?
> 
> Yes -- from Red Hat, Canonical, Debian, and other Linux distros
> as usual, I expect.

What Mark in his humbleness forgets to mention is that Oracle itself is
a GNU/Linux distro vendor these days. As mentioned prominently on
http://openjdk.java.net/install/ So when they update their OracleLinux
distro, which has been shipping GPLed binaries and source of course for
OpenJDK6/Icedtea, then there will I suppose also be new GPLed JDK7
packages here:
http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/

There is even some icedtea-web love there :)

Cheers,

Mark