On 21:11 Mon 25 Jul , mark.reinh...@oracle.com wrote: > 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 >
Yes. The issue here is I assumed these were one and the same thing and so you'd be producing GPL binaries of 7 throughout its life, not just some random binary snapshot that never changes. Oh well, guess I was too hopeful. > - Mark -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and IcedTea http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://icedtea.classpath.org PGP Key: F5862A37 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) Fingerprint = EA30 D855 D50F 90CD F54D 0698 0713 C3ED F586 2A37
