[password4321]

Oracle / licensing

edit: IIRC the official Java runtime auto-update happily upgraded to not-even-free-as-in-beer pretty nonchalantly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28543265 (2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20799424 (2019)

[anotherrandom]

I don't understand this complaint anymore. Hotspot and OpenJDK are all GPL, licensing and Oracle aren't worries at this point

[chrisseaton]

It's GPL with the 'classpath exception' so that you're even exempt from the GPL the you link. Seems pretty good licensing? Do you prefer even more permissive than that?

[mahmoudimus]

This is no longer a real reason. It's licensed as GPL with a "classpath exception." That's pretty permissive and this article[0] does a pretty good job of explaining some questions you may have.

[0]: https://www.mend.io/resources/blog/top-9-gpl-with-the-classp...