http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/06/08/051235/oracle-discontinues-free-java-time-zone-updates
"So, the interesting part is that Oracle has now decided to only release these updates if you have a Java SE support contract."
There's a FreeBSD package that is needed in order to install Java (JDK) on FreeBSD.
Update: As @jrm noticed, they've changed their mind. I thing they've upset a lot of people.
"[...] as soon as we learned that this affected JDK 7 users we initiated the process of making it available for JDK 7 again.'""
http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/06/11/1549253/oracle-reinstates-free-time-zone-updates-for-java-7
"So, the interesting part is that Oracle has now decided to only release these updates if you have a Java SE support contract."
There's a FreeBSD package that is needed in order to install Java (JDK) on FreeBSD.
Update: As @jrm noticed, they've changed their mind. I thing they've upset a lot of people.
"[...] as soon as we learned that this affected JDK 7 users we initiated the process of making it available for JDK 7 again.'""
http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/06/11/1549253/oracle-reinstates-free-time-zone-updates-for-java-7
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