Developer Preview Release was officially announced today at JavaOne by Hasan Rizvi

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 15:30 Tue 04 Oct     , Stephen Bannasch wrote:
> At 10:55 PM +0400 10/4/11, Victor Dyakov wrote:
> >Oracle JDK7 Mac OS X Port Developer Preview Release was officially announced today at JavaOne by Hasan. It is now live at http://jdk7.java.net.
> >
> >http://jdk7.java.net/macportpreview
> >
> >and OTN,
> >http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
> >http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/java-se-jdk-7-download-432154.html
> >
> 
> Why is the release distributed under such a restrictive license?
> 
>   http://jdk7.java.net/license.txt
> 
> When the macosx-port OpenJDK code I build is distributed under the GPL2 license?
> 
> Is there additional proprietary code included in jdk-7-ea-macosx-b211.dmg?
> 
> Samples from the license http://jdk7.java.net/license.txt:
> 
>   3.1  No Duplication.
> 
>   Licensee may not duplicate Licensed Software other than for a
>   single copy of Licensed Software for archival purposes only.
>   Licensee agrees to reproduce any copyright and other
>   proprietary right notices on any such copy.
> 
>   3.2  Confidential Information
> 
>   Licensed Software and Feedback (as defined in Section 5.0) are
>   "Confidential Information" of Oracle. Licensee may not
>   disclose or use Confidential Information, except for the
>   purposes specified in this Agreement. Licensee will protect
>   the Confidential Information with the same degree of care, as
>   Licensee uses to protect its own Confidential Information, but
>   no less than a reasonable degree.
> 
>   3.3  No Derivative Works
> 
>   Except as otherwise provided by law, Licensee may not modify
>   or create derivative works of the Licensed Software, or
>   reverse engineer, disassemble or decompile binary portions of
>   the Licensed Software, or otherwise attempt to derive the
>   source code from such portions.
> 
>   3.4   No Other Licenses or Rights
> 
>   No right, title, or interest in or to Licensed Software, any
>   trademarks, service marks, or trade names of Oracle or
>   Oracle's licensors is granted under this Agreement.
> 
>   3.5  No Commercial Use
> 
>   Licensee shall have no right to use the Licensed Software for
>   productive or commercial use.

Wondering the exact same thing.  Sadly, this seems to be standard
Oracle practice as they do the same with x86/x86_64 builds on
GNU/Linux, Solaris and Windows.  One possible reason is that these
builds use the proprietary graphics code and include Oracle's
proprietary Web Start / plugin implementation.
-- 
Andrew :)

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