This has absolutely nothing to do with installing at launch time. This has to do with installing, then not distributing. Distributing is a very well defined ter

This has absolutely nothing to do with installing at launch time. This has to do with installing, then not distributing. Distributing is a very well defined term in the industry, and does not simply mean making copies, or deploying to your own machines. Distributing means giving the built artifact to a 3rd party. Yes, you can create your own JDK docker base image. Yes, you can deploy it at will on any of your systems. No, you can't push it to a public respository for other people to use.