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There are a couple ways they are trying to do this. They’re actively fighting the court battle vs Google for copyright of the Java api. They’re also adding mo
by binarymax 7y ago
There are a couple ways they are trying to do this. They’re actively fighting the court battle vs Google for copyright of the Java api. They’re also adding more features to Java that are only supported in new versions, and they can/will attempt licensing lock in for those features. OpenJDK might survive as permanently stuck in version 8, or it might survive as a fork which will divide the community.
- dastbe 7y agoOpenJDK is not stuck on 8, and is where all language development goes.
- BoyRobot777 7y agoExcept the opposite is happening lol: - Contributes pretty much all of the closed source technologies (or what was originally to become closed source) of the Oracle JDK to OpenJDK, for example giving the community: JDK Flight Recorder; JDK Mission Control; ZGC; …and probably more stuff I can’t think of right now; - Ensures the Oracle JDK and the OpenJDK builds are virtually indistinguishable; - Starts providing a free OpenJDK build (which includes all these donated technologies); - Provides uncountable man hours of maintaining and innovating the Java platform; - Ensures that the community knows where to find the free bits by linking to them, and slaps on a bright yellow warning sign, so that everyone can see that the licensing has changed; Some bits do not even make sense: >OpenJDK might survive as permanently stuck in version 8 ??? Wat?