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> rebuild the licenses around it Isn't it all GPL?

tsimionescu 5y ago
The code is GPL, but the official Oracle binaries are not (since Oracle owns the copyright, they are free to release under multiple different licenses) and they use Oracle's predatory "free" licensing - you când download and run for free for 6 months, but you owe them money if you keep running those binaries after the moment the new version is released. There is no explicit enforcement mechanism - it's up to you to be careful, otherwise their lawyers will notice at some point and bill you for all the times you weren't.
- AQuantized 5y ago
  So it can be avoided by compiling the code yourself?
  - unmole 5y ago
    Or just using a package manager like a normal person.
- tablespoon 5y ago
  > The code is GPL, but the official Oracle binaries are not (since Oracle owns the copyright, they are free to release under multiple different licenses) and they use Oracle's predatory "free" licensing... And once they started doing that, everyone switched to some flavor of OpenJDK, many distributions of which are backed by organizations of at least Oracle's size. https://adoptopenjdk.net/ https://adoptopenjdk.net/ https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/ https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/ https://developers.redhat.com/products/openjdk/overview https://developers.redhat.com/products/openjdk/overview https://www.microsoft.com/openjdk https://www.microsoft.com/openjdk
- Spinfusor 5y ago
  Oracle's OpenJDK binaries are GPL; the Oracle JDK has a better license as of a few months ago (v17): https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/post/introducing-free-java-license https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/post/introduci...
- chrisseaton 5y ago
  So build it yourself or get someone else to build it for you.
  - ksec 5y ago
    For the past 2-3 ( may be 4 ) years there is a narrative / movement that Open Source doesn't just mean the sourced code are opened, open source means the "community". And the result of that community must be both free in beer and free as speech.

The code is GPL, but the official Oracle binaries are not (since Oracle owns the copyright, they are free to release under multiple different licenses) and they use Oracle's predatory "free" licensing - you când download and run for free for 6 months, but you owe them money if you keep running those binaries after the moment the new version is released. There is no explicit enforcement mechanism - it's up to you to be careful, otherwise their lawyers will notice at some point and bill you for all the times you weren't.

AQuantized 5y ago
So it can be avoided by compiling the code yourself?
- unmole 5y ago
  Or just using a package manager like a normal person.
tablespoon 5y ago
> The code is GPL, but the official Oracle binaries are not (since Oracle owns the copyright, they are free to release under multiple different licenses) and they use Oracle's predatory "free" licensing... And once they started doing that, everyone switched to some flavor of OpenJDK, many distributions of which are backed by organizations of at least Oracle's size. https://adoptopenjdk.net/ https://adoptopenjdk.net/ https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/ https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/ https://developers.redhat.com/products/openjdk/overview https://developers.redhat.com/products/openjdk/overview https://www.microsoft.com/openjdk https://www.microsoft.com/openjdk
Spinfusor 5y ago
Oracle's OpenJDK binaries are GPL; the Oracle JDK has a better license as of a few months ago (v17): https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/post/introducing-free-java-license https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/post/introduci...
chrisseaton 5y ago
So build it yourself or get someone else to build it for you.
- ksec 5y ago
  For the past 2-3 ( may be 4 ) years there is a narrative / movement that Open Source doesn't just mean the sourced code are opened, open source means the "community". And the result of that community must be both free in beer and free as speech.