[Spinfusor]

It's mostly FUD: it's only relevant for the Oracle JDK; it doesn't apply to OpenJDK (or the other open distributions by other orgs).

[cxr]

It doesn't help that multiple Oracle/Sun folks—including people like McNealy—said under oath that they don't believe that the licensing permits you to make commercial use, even if you opt for the GPL version.

[pjmlp]

At the time Google screwed Sun, the GPL version did not cover the deployment into embedded platforms, only desktop and servers.

OpenJDK license is another matter.

[aw1621107]

Glad to hear that; I thought I remembered reading something like that back when the license change was first announced, but I wasn't sure if something else had changed in the meantime.