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by znpy 453 days ago
What about GraalVM licensing?

According to https://www.graalvm.org/latest/introduction/#licensing-and-s... the community edition is free software (GPLv2 + classpath exception).

But it isn't really clear what the differences are between the free software version and the proprietary version.

There does not seem to be a page detailing the differences between the two (or at least I couldn't find it)

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I think the proprietary variant of GraalVM comes with more optimizations in the compiler.

But the AOT compilation (native-image) is available in the GPL community variant.