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The CE?

• kodablah 8y ago
  Yes. It's not like it's donated to the OpenJDK community or anything even though they are going to start shipping with it. It may not affect you and you may not mind, but I personally avoid software owned by that company when I can (which is of course not always). I am also always wary of developer languages/libraries that use the freemium model.
  • DannyB2 8y ago
    GPL + classpath exception seems to be about as free as it gets.
    • kodablah 8y ago
      If you're responding to my comment about the owner, we cannot tell what the future will hold, we can only judge by the owner's past conduct. If you're responding to my comment about freemium, the concerns aren't the current license of the free version, but the decisions that come about when there is a monetized and non-monetized version. While it's often reasonable in other forms of software, in developer languages/libraries I think it is dangerous to build reliance on anything with that kind of conflict.