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

[Scott Palmer]

It's like what thy did with JavaFX. They changed the license at the
last second to not allow redistribution of the JavaFX runtime, despite
advertising on JavaFX.com that they would allow it.

Scott

On 2011-10-04, at 4:35 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes <ahughes at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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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