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Java, but why? The state of Java in 2024

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State of Java in terms of openness and trademark ownership

This chapter explains the open-source status of Java with a GPL license and class path exception, allowing businesses to use Java and its libraries without open-sourcing their own code, while clarifying that modifications to Java would need source code to be open and using the Java trademark would require a payment to Oracle.

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