This is false. You can (and always could) get the free OpenJDK, which is built and distributed by Oracle. It doesn't get much more "official". If you have some

This is false. You can (and always could) get the free OpenJDK, which is built and distributed by Oracle. It doesn't get much more "official". If you have some specific needs, you can pay for enterprise support, i.e. the Oracle JDK. Since some months(?) you can also get the Oracle JDK for free (and use it commercially). But you have to pay for extended support. The free support given by the Oracle JDK is until a new major version is released (for non-lts versions) or one year after the next LTS version (which currently is released every two years). https://blogs.oracle.com/java/post/free-java-license https://blogs.oracle.com/java/post/free-java-license https://blogs.oracle.com/java/post/moving-the-jdk-to-a-two-year-lts-cadence https://blogs.oracle.com/java/post/moving-the-jdk-to-a-two-y...