As you may have noticed, Sun has released an early version of JDK1.5
(which I appreciate very much). Initially Javalobby publicised this
mostly, and insisted that downloaders are bound by a non-disclosure
agreement (which I ranted about previously).

However, now Sun
have published a link to the download, with no mention of a NDA. There
is some quite dense language in the click-thru licence about confidential
information, but I don't think that is supposed to be a NDA (INAL,
though). In any case, exactly
the same language is used for the JDK1.4.1 download.

It is worth pointing out that the bug database for
1.5 is public, too.

Anyway, unless someone (preferably someone from Sun) can let me know I
shouldn't, I intend to start talking about 1.5