2011/7/25 17:00 -0700, ahug...@redhat.com: > On 15:07 Wed 20 Jul 2011, mark.reinh...@oracle.com wrote: >> Shipping the RI is part of finishing the JCP Final Release, >> which is a different thing from shipping a supported product. >> >> 2011/7/20 14:07 -0700, ahug...@redhat.com: >>> But aren't these kinda useless if they don't get security updates? >> >> They're meant only for testing and reference use, primarily >> by implementors trying to get their implementations to pass >> the JCK. >> >>> Will there be any useful GPL binaries? >> >> Yes -- from Red Hat, Canonical, Debian, and other Linux distros >> as usual, I expect. > > So, in other words, nothing changed and Oracle's implementation will > still be in proprietary binary form.
Oracle's commercial product implementation is still proprietary, though most of it is based upon the OpenJDK JDK 7 code base. What's changed is that the Reference Implementations are based solely upon open-source code and binaries are available under the GPL, as explained here: http://blogs.oracle.com/henrik/entry/moving_to_openjdk_as_the - Mark
