Oracle JDK7 Mac OS X Port Developer Preview Release

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 20:48 Tue 04 Oct     , Henri Gomez wrote:
> Hi to all,
> 
> Just discovered Oracle Mac OS/X Port Preview :
> 
> http://jdk7.java.net/macportpreview/
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/openjdk-osx-build/ may be soon out of business :)

This is a proprietary binary, so I very much doubt it.  Notably,

2.1 Source Code.  Oracle grants to Licensee, a non-exclusive,
non-transferable, royalty-free and limited license to view the source
code portions of the Licensed Software internally for the purposes of
evaluation only.

2.2 Binary Code.  Oracle grants to Licensee, a non-exclusive,
non-transferable, royalty-free and limited license to use the binary
code portions of the Licensed Software internally for the purposes of
evaluation only.

2.3 No Other Licenses.  No licenses are granted to Licensee for any
other purposes, Licensee may not sell, rent, loan or otherwise
encumber or transfer Licensed Software in whole or in part, to any
third party.

3.5 No Commercial Use Licensee shall have no right to use the Licensed
Software for productive or commercial use.

whereas the OpenJDK OSX build is under the GPL and other licenses.
The page says 'Apache License 2.0' but this is clearly wrong, as the
vast majority of OpenJDK code is either GPLv2 or GPLv2 with the
Classpath exception.

I would strongly warn anyone working on the open source OpenJDK OSX port
NOT to look at any source code included in this preview build for risk
of contamination.
-- 
Andrew :)

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