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Unity backtracks slightly on plans to charge developers for game installs (www.eurogamer.net)
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Game development engine Unity has U-turned on some parts of its hugely controversial plan to enforce fees on game creat…

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[–] computergeek125 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know how OpenJDK works right? Not every runtime requires payment to Oracle.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You know how Oracle works right? Not every license is adhered to by Oracle.
They sued over copyright of the function names my dude. The fact that that was insane did not stop them and did not stop google from paying massive amounts of money to Lawyers to get the License terms enforced.
https://www.eff.org/cases/oracle-v-google

Never have anything to do with Oracle. Not even tangentially.