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by samueldavid 2845 days ago
can we fork OpenJDK?
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exabrial 2845 days ago
Yes.
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Bjartr 2845 days ago
Without getting sued by Oracle?
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J-Kuhn 2845 days ago
That's something nobody can be sure it won't happen.

OpenJDK is open source (GPL2 + classpath exception).

"Java" otoh is a trademark.

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repolfx 2844 days ago
Google didn't fork OpenJDK. They now use it though, after the lawsuit!
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exabrial 2845 days ago
To my knowledge that'd be the first [complete] test of GPL by the legal system, which is also a great outcome.
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