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		solomatov on May 22, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google scored points with its community by support... They can make proprietary distributions of JVM right away. I don't see how jigsaw can change it. As far as I understand, copyright for JVM belongs to Oracle, and they can distribute it with whatever license they want without any problem.

_pmf_ on May 22, 2017 [–]

As far as I know, they have always been providing a commercial JVM[0] with features that are not in the regular JVM.

[0] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/jrockit/overvie...

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