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Interesting. While from a code licensing perspective there's no trouble with OpenJDK forks, the patent licensing supposedly only holds for implementations that

Interesting. While from a code licensing perspective there's no trouble with OpenJDK forks, the patent licensing supposedly only holds for implementations that can pass the compatibility kit, which Oracle has refused to let alternate JDKs run in the past. I wonder if they have changed their tune for this or if they are just looking the other way.

akeefer 15y ago
That is an interesting point . . . OpenJDK itself is covered by the patent grants, but this is a patched version of OpenJDK. That said, the original research done here was sponsored by Oracle, and Thomas now works in Oracle Labs.