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Wow, so with Java, rather than developing software... I can spend my time reading through piles of legalese, trying to figure out which incantation of vague lic
by jtdev 8y ago
Wow, so with Java, rather than developing software... I can spend my time reading through piles of legalese, trying to figure out which incantation of vague licensing/use language I’m beholden to.
- pron 8y agoThe JDK is under the same license as Linux, so however closely you pay attention to the Linux legalese, that's as much attention you need to pay to Java's.
- jtdev 8y agoAll JDKs are GPL?
- pron 8y agoAll JDKs built from the OpenJDK project have the same license as the OpenJDK project, which is GPLv2 with the Classpath Exception (that means the license does not infect Java programs running on top of the JDK). http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html (The same JDK is also offered by Oracle under a commercial license for those who wish to buy a support subscription from Oracle, and other companies license the code to make their own commerical JDKs, e.g. Azul's Zing).
- jtdev 8y agoSounds...complicated.