Oracle JDK7 Mac OS X Port Developer Preview Release

[John Yeary]

Hello Henri,

I think you are going to remain in business. You do a great job on your
releases, and there are no crummy license issues. As John pointed out, the
licensing is a mess around their binary release. There should be a big
warning on the site for OpenJDK folks about the licensing.

Would someone from Oracle please look at this and make the appropriate
corrections?

John

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes <ahughes at redhat.com>wrote:

> On 20:48 Tue 04 Oct     , Henri Gomez wrote:
> > Hi to all,
> >
> > Just discovered Oracle Mac OS/X Port Preview :
> >
> > http://jdk7.java.net/macportpreview/
> >
> > http://code.google.com/p/openjdk-osx-build/ may be soon out of business
> :)
>
> This is a proprietary binary, so I very much doubt it.  Notably,
>
> 2.1 Source Code.  Oracle grants to Licensee, a non-exclusive,
> non-transferable, royalty-free and limited license to view the source
> code portions of the Licensed Software internally for the purposes of
> evaluation only.
>
> 2.2 Binary Code.  Oracle grants to Licensee, a non-exclusive,
> non-transferable, royalty-free and limited license to use the binary
> code portions of the Licensed Software internally for the purposes of
> evaluation only.
>
> 2.3 No Other Licenses.  No licenses are granted to Licensee for any
> other purposes, Licensee may not sell, rent, loan or otherwise
> encumber or transfer Licensed Software in whole or in part, to any
> third party.
>
> 3.5 No Commercial Use Licensee shall have no right to use the Licensed
> Software for productive or commercial use.
>
> whereas the OpenJDK OSX build is under the GPL and other licenses.
> The page says 'Apache License 2.0' but this is clearly wrong, as the
> vast majority of OpenJDK code is either GPLv2 or GPLv2 with the
> Classpath exception.
>
> I would strongly warn anyone working on the open source OpenJDK OSX port
> NOT to look at any source code included in this preview build for risk
> of contamination.
> --
> Andrew :)
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