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Coming sometime this winter they will require a license to use java 9 and up. Below is a link for the downvoters and skeptics: https://www.aspera.com/en/blog/
by humbleMouse 8y ago
Coming sometime this winter they will require a license to use java 9 and up.
Below is a link for the downvoters and skeptics:
https://www.aspera.com/en/blog/oracle-will-charge-for-java-starting-in-2019/ https://www.aspera.com/en/blog/oracle-will-charge-for-java-s...
- karianna 8y agoOh dear - the FUD is strong with this one. You’re only required to buy a commercial license if you use Oracle’s JDK beyond their free public updates timeframe and if you want the subsequent security patches etc from Oracle. There are also a whole bunch of $free (and $commercial) OpenJDK alternatives by Azul, RedHat, IBM, AdoptOpenJDK, distrust etc.
- humbleMouse 8y agoWhat does FUD mean in this context? edit: I looked it up. Your comment is obviously correct and valid. However, my stance is unchanged. I will stick to openjdk8 and avoid oracle regulatory influence.
- kjeetgill 8y agoThe first sentence from your link: > Oracle has announced that, effective January 2019, Java SE 8 public updates will no longer be available for "Business, Commercial or Production use" without a commercial license. Anything you can get now is still free and GPL open sourced. All they're doing is no longer publishing NEW CODE (in the form of backports and bug fixes) to the OpenJDK 8 branch. Instead they're publishing it to OracleJDK. They're not trying to kill GPL anymore than Redhat is trying to Linux.
- lemming 8y agoHere is the rebuttal which shows that this is patently false for all actual use cases: http://blog.joda.org/2018/08/java-is-still-available-at-zero-cost.html http://blog.joda.org/2018/08/java-is-still-available-at-zero...