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I have no problem with them releasing a commercial JVM with extra bells and whistles and middleware - most people don't need that anyway, and the few who do are more than willing to pay.

But they had better not nerf OpenJDK relative to what it can do now.




Fortunately they can't do that. It's GPL'd, no take-backs. They could conceivably remove things from future releases, but I'd expect to see a community fork in that case.


There is no patent license in the GPLv2.

Their decision to keep it on GPL v2 is very very explicit.




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