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For me, it is because if I ever wanted to embrace and extend Java, even for a personal project, I would feel that I was putting myself into a state of legal jeo

For me, it is because if I ever wanted to embrace and extend Java, even for a personal project, I would feel that I was putting myself into a state of legal jeopardy. You can argue all you want how I would be or I wouldn’t be, or that I would be fine as long as I didn’t call it Java, but as long as oracle remains super-litigatious... I would rather put my efforts elsewhere. (Would love to do or learn more about Graal, too, but... yuck. What am I going to get sued for if I re-implement any of it? No thanks.)

pron 8y ago
Even at the height of the court trial, even Google itself continued to use and fork OpenJDK (they rely on it heavily) and talk about it at Oracle[1]. OpenJDK is governed by its open-source license, which is GPLv2 (with the classpath extensions) -- just like Linux.[2] [1]: https://video.oracle.com/detail/videos/featured-videos/video/3731062156001/jvmls-2014:-jvm-at-google https://video.oracle.com/detail/videos/featured-videos/video... [2]: http://openjdk.java.net/legal/ http://openjdk.java.net/legal/