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

[Scott Palmer]

On 2011-10-06, at 1:30 PM, Stephen Bannasch wrote:

> 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.
>> [snp]
>>> Why is the release distributed under such a restrictive license?
>>> 
>>>  http://jdk7.java.net/license.txt
>> 
>> 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.
> 

It's insignificant in my opinion.  It's a license for developing and testing with pre-release software and it doesn't effect my use of it in the slightest.  When I find bugs I will report them, if I don't Oracle isn't going to hunt me down for my "test results".

I disagree that no productive use can be made with it.  I could complete development of my entire application with it.  I just have to wait for the release version to release my app - that's not unusual, and seems to be the same as it always has been with any JDK pre-release out of Oracle or Apple.

Scott

P.S. They cleared up the license issue with JavaFX as well.