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

[Henri Gomez]

Question about Oracle JVM (releases)

Could part of these release could be used as embedded JRE in applications ?

I think about Java Apps for AppStore. 

Le 6 oct. 2011 à 19:51, Scott Palmer <swpalmer at gmail.com> a écrit :

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