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Re:Apache declares war on Oracle over Java by codedivine on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @01:46AM (#1889441)
There are quite a few alternate commercial VMs including Oracle's own JRockit, IBM's commercial JVM and JVMs by some startups such as Fiji. But Sun/Oracle apparently had a problem with an alternate Apache licensed VM.
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Re:Apache declares war on Oracle over Java by sciboy on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @01:52AM (#1889451)
Wouldn't this mean that JRockit et al would no longer have to pay licenses for their implementations?
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Re:Apache declares war on Oracle over Java by wmf on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @11:24AM (#1890815)
No, because the deal was that open source VMs get a free license but commercial VMs have to pay. Basically if you can afford to pay you have to pay.
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Re:Apache declares war on Oracle over Java by sciboy on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @05:21PM (#1891998)
No, because once something is bsd or apache licensed you could repackage it as a commercial vm.
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