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

[Stephen Bannasch]

At 8:08 AM -0700 10/6/11, Dalibor Topic wrote:
>On 10/4/11 12:30 PM, 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.
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>> Why is the release distributed under such a restrictive license?
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>>   http://jdk7.java.net/license.txt
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>All Oracle JDK 7 preview releases use the same license.

I'm not surprised ... but the license is also so restrictive it's almost nonsensical.

If you agree to the license (which is necessary before downloading the preview) you are also agreeing to

- assign all the rights to your test results, evaluation data and reports to Oracle.
- perform no productive or commercial use with the software
- agree to keep all details of the software confidential

As I read the license if you agree to it and download the preview you are no longer allowed to discuss the same code that is released under the GPL2.

Now I'm sure that most people don't even bother reading the license -- but I do and it's disturbing.