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exabrial
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Time to look beyond Oracle's JDK
Yes.
Bjartr
on Sept 9, 2018
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Without getting sued by Oracle?
J-Kuhn
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That's something nobody can be sure it won't happen.
OpenJDK is open source (GPL2 + classpath exception).
"Java" otoh is a trademark.
repolfx
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Google
didn't
fork OpenJDK. They now use it though, after the lawsuit!
exabrial
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To my knowledge that'd be the first [complete] test of GPL by the legal system, which is also a great outcome.
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