[License-discuss] GPLv2+ce question - are you forced to make your project open source.

[Mike Milinkovich]

On 2019-10-02 4:20 a.m., richard dagenais wrote:
>
> Someone has mentioned that in order to be able to use the open source 
> software you must make your software open source as well.  Our 
> software is not open source and we do not want to make open source. Is 
> it possible to simply include the open source Java runtime in our 
> packaging, which is a commercial product? For our situation, we are 
> not modifying any part of the open source code but using it to 
> generate byte code from our code base. We also would need to 
> distribute the Java JRE of the open source project with our code in 
> order to run the application.
>
>
> Link to GPLv2 I have found.
>
>
> https://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html
>
No. That is simply not true, and has never been true of any Java-related 
licensing model. Your application does not have to be released under an 
open source license to run on top the JRE or to use the Java compiler.


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