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John7s789 on May 2, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: JDK 8 M7 update

Is the use of OpenJDK along with any Java code free for commercial use?.. Or do companies that use OpenJDK have a chance to have Oracle charge them for using its technologies?..

cnahr on May 3, 2013 [–]

Using OpenJDK is completely free, as far as I'm aware. Redistributing OpenJDK bits is covered by GPL2 with some Sun/Oracle amendments: http://openjdk.java.net/legal/

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