Field of use

[Mark Wielaard]

On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 13:39 +0000, Jonathan Tripathy wrote:
> I still don't see any "Field of Use" restrictions though.

That is because there aren't any such restrictions.

> Then again, I don't see any patent license grants at all..

They are all licensed through the GPL for everyone's free use.
http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Java_and_patents

"OpenJDK is has been distributed by Oracle under GPLv2. GPLv2 includes
two implicit patent licences, so users of OpenJDK should be safe, and
modified versions of OpenJDK should also be safe (even if they're
heavily modified).

The protections in the GPL are unconditional. The software doesn't have
to comply with any specifications in order to benefit from these
protections."