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I wrote up an alternative proposal here: https://blog.joda.org/2022/10/fully-defined-entrypoints.html

My concept is much more powerful by having a new kind of class declaration alongside 'record' and 'enum' - 'entrypoint'.

The main author was Martijn Verburg, first listed in the signatures. I was involved in writing it too along with other Java Champions.

Security patches will be available for Java 11 via Red Hat, IBM and others (who have promised to do so). And the binaries will be built and made available here https://adoptopenjdk.net/ as well as via other OpenJDK build farms (eg. Azul Zulu).

If you want to claim that 2000+ word terms are not legalese then so be it. Suffice it to say, I disagree. What is needed here is a summary in the warning box on the main page. Something like "Do not download this unless you want to pay us".

Not everybody reads warnings. Many will go to that page and just go straight to the download. In addition, the warning doesn't say "not for commercial use" - you have to click through and read a long legalese to find it. Oracle could still choose to make it clearer...

Maybe. But they have also provided a $free alternative. This is solely a battle of getting Java users weened off Oracle JDK and onto an OpenJDK build.

Yes, I definitely don't own an island!

I've also copied it to my blog, in case the new gist disappears: http://blog.joda.org/2011/11/real-life-scala-feedback-from-y...