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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 27 2012 @ 09:24 PM EDT |
Well I don't really want just lawyers views. Just interested in understanding
how it works. :)
And with regards to your second point I think that there are two ways you could
choose to use OpenJDK. You could follow what Sun/Oracle want you to do and add
back into OpenJDK maybe via the JCP as you suggest. But one of the founding
principles of Open source is that if what the code does now doesn't work for you
then you are free to innovate on top of it. As long as your innovations are
free for others to use (or you only use your code internally and don't
distribute). You release it so that others can build on it not just so they can
build YOU a better version for free!
You might decide that you want to make a new language and you like many things
in OpenJDK so you copy it and make a new language. Or you might decide that you
want to combine your new language as a small part of a bigger platform project.
Maybe your new derived language use will be used on 100's of millions of devices
some day and be use to write more applications that Java ever did (like Android
is doing now).
So just saying that maybe because of the really cunning way Sun/Oracle have
licensed OpenJDK and because of software patents we are left too scared to use
this Open source project freely as a normal GPL'ed project would be otherwise.
I guess there is a case to argue the same is true with any open source project
where Software patents may come into play.
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