JRockit now free from Oracle

Almost. From the article:<p>"JRockit is now free (gratis) for development and internal production use on general purpose computers.<p>Commercial features continue to require a commercial license. This includes most features currently in JRockit Mission Control, JRockit Real Time and JRockit Virtual Edition. Previously, it was only possible to get a commercial license for these features as part of Oracle products (such as WebLogic Server), they can now be purchased standalone for use with any Java application."

"we have also been working on convergence from a licensing perspective. This work is now complete, and we have changed the license that we distribute both the Oracle (Sun) JDK and JRockit under."<p>-&#62; Is 'free JRockit' a scape goat for a license change of the "real" JDK? They now separate between the JDK and "Java SE Advanced", "Java SE Suite".<p>Taken from here:<p>G. COMMERCIAL FEATURES NOTICE Use of the Commercial Features for any commercial or production purpose requires a separate license from Oracle. “Commercial Features” means those features identified Table 1-1 (Commercial Features In Java SE Product Editions) of the Software documentation accessible at <a href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/documentation/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/documentation/...</a>

I'm sorry but the title is misleading. There is no point developing on it for free if you have to deploy it with a commercial license. The only benefit is that existing commercial licensees no longer need to pay for a development license.

It sounds like it won't be released under a libre license until it's merged into OpenJDK, so that'll be the interesting thing to wait for.

the fact that I completely fail to become excited by that headline should tell Oracle something about how badly their brand has been damaged from their inept approach to the entire Java ecosystem.

As a developer of free (gratis) software I'm pretty stoked about this, I love working with JRockit. I'm really excited about its features being ported to OpenJDK!