Re:Java’s new garbage collector promises low pause times on ...
by kjeetgill on Thursday August 30, 2018 @07:37PM
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The first sentence from your link:
> Oracle has announced that, effective January 2019, Java SE 8 public updates will no longer be available for "Business, Commercial or Production use" without a commercial license.
Anything you can get now is still free and GPL open sourced. All they're doing is no longer publishing NEW CODE (in the form of backports and bug fixes) to the OpenJDK 8 branch. Instead they're publishing it to OracleJDK.
They're not trying to kill GPL anymore than Redhat is trying to Linux.
> Oracle has announced that, effective January 2019, Java SE 8 public updates will no longer be available for "Business, Commercial or Production use" without a commercial license.
Anything you can get now is still free and GPL open sourced. All they're doing is no longer publishing NEW CODE (in the form of backports and bug fixes) to the OpenJDK 8 branch. Instead they're publishing it to OracleJDK.
They're not trying to kill GPL anymore than Redhat is trying to Linux.