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Comment by amelius | Hacker News Reader

One thing they didn't mention you can do with GraalVM:

Getting sued by Oracle.

/s noted, and sure Oracle are litigious, but the GPL community version of GraalVM, plus "early adopter" enterprise version licence[0] seems farily clear, and reasonable - at least as far as Oracle are concerned?

[0] https://www.oracle.com/downloads/licenses/graal-free-license... https://blogs.oracle.com/java/post/graalvm-free-license

This is Oracle you are talking about...clear and reasonable are not part of their vocabulary. Fantastic technology, massive legals risks.

"Is GraalVM Free for production use?" - https://lvijay.medium.com/is-graalvm-free-for-production-use...

"...Note that the licensing terms with GraalVM are different from those of OpenJDK. In the case of OpenJDK the risk you open yourself to is security compliance (which you might overcome using other means) in the case of GraalVM you are in violation of the license at the end of 4 years. Unlike security compliance however, you can purchase a license from Oracle and bring yourself into the legal all-clear..."

"Oracle goes on hunt for Java non-compliance" - https://www.computerweekly.com/news/365531580/Oracle-goes-on...

Just stick to the non-enterprise version. Also, a medium article is hardly the arbiter of truth (and it talks about the enterprise version that became free recently)

You nailed it

This was the first thing that came to mind when I saw this.

No sarcasm tag required. Exposure to oracle is a business risk. I expect any architect to think pretty hard before allowing anything owned by oracle into the stack.

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