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You missed the rest of the quote. > or changing their licenses. It was never clear they were going to change their license after years of making it $free to s
by snarfy 8y ago
You missed the rest of the quote.
> or changing their licenses.
It was never clear they were going to change their license after years of making it $free to something not $free.
- repolfx 8y agoThey have been communicating the changes in how OpenJDK and Oracle JDK work for a year now, through many public talks, announcements, blog posts and so on. Moreover the changes are good for the community. OpenJDK is now the reference implementation and equivalent to the old Oracle JDK in every way. The only reason to use the Oracle JDK now is to get commercial support from Oracle. Calling this a "trap" is dumb. Not only did Oracle change the licenses to be better for end users, they are highlighting the changes in a big yellow box and the license is written clearly. OpenJDK is regular GPL + an exception so you don't have to GPL your own apps. To repeat, Java is getting more free not less.