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Plus Oracle is being shady with their licensing terms.
by samfisher83 6y ago
Plus Oracle is being shady with their licensing terms.
- kasperni 6y agoShady in what way? OpenJDK is licensed under GPL2 with linking exception.
- karianna 6y agoMSFT Employee here who came in via last year’s jClarity acquisition (yes Microsoft now has a Java Engineering Group!). Oracle change the licensing terms on its Oracle JDK (which was the default JDK most of the world used) to something more commercial which some folks thought was it communicated well enough. There are a ton of free in beer and free in use options. You can look at adoptopenjdk.net for the broadest community led one or azul Zulu for the one that’s been around since even before Oracle made their change