Need Advice to see if we can ship OpenJDK/JRE with Commercial App (original) (raw)

Dan Tran dantran at gmail.com
Thu Oct 6 15🔞56 UTC 2011

We also got advice from our council to scan the source files under openjdk 7 source directory for NONE GPLv2 with "Classpath" exception [1] . We found about 1000 files, all of those files fall under the following categories: demo, sample, test, NONE GPL file ( ie has apache2 or other friendly license ).

Since those files do not apply to us, I guess we can ship OpenJDK without exposing our source code under GPLv2 license.

How about others? How do you approach this issue?

Since I found so little discussion about ability to ship OpenJDK with a commercial app ( instead of Oracle JRE, and not paying for license fee ), it sounds like OpenJDK 7 is NOT ready for prime time yet?

Thanks

-Dan

[1] http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Dan Tran <dantran at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi

What kind of obligation do we need?  ( like expose our source code since OpenJDK is GNU ? ) Big Thanks -Dan

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