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by WorldMaker 2027 days ago
Implementing it from scratch as a skunkworks reverse engineering project designed to never need to pay license fees upstream.
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Despite the license allowing clean room reverse engineering? Sun kindof shot themselves in the foot with those words.
Where on the license? Please.

It explicitly only allowed the use of JavaSE on desktop deployments, OpenJDK was yet to be made available.