[hkolk]

Our company (on the scale of running it's own private cloud) has switched over to OpenJDK. Oracle is a non-issue for us

For people actually working with JVM and the languages on top of it, nobody really is worried about Oracle. The way the licensing is set up, they just don't have enough power to coerce people to use their version. It would kind of be like the SCO case if they came after it. I think they went after Google for Android simply to protect their IP, and that one they even "lost" (which detracts also from their possible future lawsuit on enforcing Java licensing)

[ilovecaching]

As a believe in free and open source software, I think this is a very head in the sand approach. Any portion of Java, even if it's just a certification being open source is enough to run away from it when there are so many alternatives that are better languages and completely open source.

[saagarjha]

OpenJDK is GPLv2. I know of only a handful of other, popular languages with a license as copyleft as that.