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Where I work now, we went through 2 or 3 rounds of funding. Each round involved lawyers doing due dilligence, checking the licencing of all the software we use, and all the libraries we use, and so on.

No issues were raised regarding Java or MySql. Bottom line, I don't know the difference between this and that license, what I do know is that Oracle licensing for Java and MySql gave us zero grief. For the record, we just use Java and MySql as provided. I can see how Google making their own "Java" for Android can get messy. But that is kind of unusual, who makes their own Java? I know of several vendors, and they usually try and get certification/TCK and so on. Google did not, well, that is Google's problem.




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