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What happens to OpenJDK when Oracle dies? That's looking increasingly likely on a 3-5yr horizon.
by 27183 2mo ago
What happens to OpenJDK when Oracle dies? That's looking increasingly likely on a 3-5yr horizon.
- tombert 2mo agoI don't think Oracle will die, but even entertaining the hypothetical I suspect that some other organization (e.g. Apache) would pick up and maintain a fork.
- saghm 2mo agoProbably it would get picked up by someone else (e.g. the Linux Foundation)? It's GPLv2-licensed, so it's not like the code is going to be risky for someone to fork
- theandrewbailey 2mo agoI would expect it to be picked up by the Eclipse Foundation. They already have the Java Ent- I mean, Jakarta Enterprise Edition.
- sandeepkd 2mo agoWay too much rides on Java, pretty much every big business has their own customized version of JDK that they support and maintain
- ImJamal 2mo agoIBM, Red Hat, Microsoft, SAP, Amazon and others all work on the JDK. They would have to step it up to cover the loss of Oracle's contributions, but I am sure they could manage. Regardless, your timeframe on Oracle's death seems way too soon.
- cesarb 2mo agoThe same that happened when Sun died: it gets bought by someone else.