Indeed, there is no reason to switch back to Oracle JDK unless you want legal ambiguities. There are many JDK vendors/builds now, the Oracle build doesn't have anything fancy, they themselves tried very hard to kill it and now want back into the spotlight. I don't think it works that way and I can't think of a reason a corporation would use them without a support contract with them. It's only risks.
--emi On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 3:28 AM Andreas Reichel < [email protected]> wrote: > All, > > in my opinion, even if Oracle changed the terms and meant it (which would > be welcome of course) -- there won't be a guarantee, that they will > flip-flop again after a new lawyer/COO/whatever arrived. > > Any corporate's worst nightmare is to a java stack running, which is > suddenly affected by such legal threads. Its all about trust and > confidence, not necessarily about technical performance. > > So at least for us, it is Liberica and as little Oracle as ever possible > and no announcement is going to change that. > Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, try to avoid. > > Good luck. > > On Tue, 2021-09-14 at 19:12 -0500, Raul Cosio wrote: > > Thanks Will, interesting reading but I still don't get it. Comments from > the group are welcome. > I've read the license many times but it doesn't look clear to me, the > license says that It grants to you, a limited license to internally use the > unmodified programs for the purposes of "developing, testing, prototyping > and demonstrating your application, and running the program *for you own > personal use or internal business operations*". That last part does look > to me the same as the last license because it means that I can use the JDK > for my "private personal use", and in my company I can use it "for > internal business operations". Running the JDK for a public tomcat web > server is considered internal business operations?. However, as you > indicated in your email, Donald Smith in his blog, said that "it is free > for commercial and production use" as long as it is not redistributed for a > fee. Would that mean that I can sell my product with a JDK included as long > as I include a paragraph saying that "The JDK is included freely as a > courtesy"? > > Regards, > Raul Cosio > > On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 12:34 PM Will Hartung <[email protected]> > wrote: > > JDK 17 is out. > > And there was this interesting development. > > https://blogs.oracle.com/java/post/free-java-license > > Top two bullet points: > > + Oracle is making the industry leading Oracle JDK available for free, > including all quarterly security updates. This includes commercial and > production use. > > + The new license is the "Oracle No-Fee Terms and Conditions" (NFTC) > license. This license for the Oracle JDK permits free use for all users, > even commercial and production use. Redistribution is permitted as long as > it is not for a fee. > > So, I thought this was interesting news. > > Regards, > > Will Hartung > > >
