ZFS on Linux 0.7.13

Re:ZFS on Linux 0.7.13 by bluejekyll on Thursday March 07, 2019 @09:38AM (#19328308)

Not defending Oracle here, but I wanted to add some clarity.

Oracle will now only support current LTS versions of the Oracle JDK (as opposed to the OpenJDK), for something like 2 years. Basically requiring people to migrate to LTS releases relatively quickly.

If you can’t (larger orgs and others with requirements that delay those moves), then you’ll need to pay Oracle for a license.

Java (Oracle/Sun JDK) has never really been free, specifically, while I never worked with it, embedded JDK has always required a purchased license for distribution. The OpenJDK, on the other hand is a free OSS licensed distribution of Java.

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Re:ZFS on Linux 0.7.13 by oblio on Thursday March 07, 2019 @10:26AM (#19328735)

In practice it doesn't really work like that. The vast majority of devs and companies using Java were not using an embedded JDK.

So for them, it's moving from a freely available JDK supported for many years, to a JDK that's changing every 6 months.

And the dust is far from settling on which alternative OpenJDK build is stable, reliable and free, long term.

I know that companies should pay for it, but things don't really work like that, see the OpenSSL fiasco.

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