Change in Java SE 7 Reference Implementation license

[mark.reinhold at oracle.com]

2011/7/25 17:00 -0700, ahughes at redhat.com:
> On 15:07 Wed 20 Jul 2011, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
>> Shipping the RI is part of finishing the JCP Final Release,
>> which is a different thing from shipping a supported product.
>> 
>> 2011/7/20 14:07 -0700, ahughes at redhat.com:
>>> 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.
> 
> So, in other words, nothing changed and Oracle's implementation will
> still be in proprietary binary form.

Oracle's commercial product implementation is still proprietary, though
most of it is based upon the OpenJDK JDK 7 code base.

What's changed is that the Reference Implementations are based solely
upon open-source code and binaries are available under the GPL, as
explained here:

  http://blogs.oracle.com/henrik/entry/moving_to_openjdk_as_the

- Mark