![]() All other use cases required the purchase of a Java SE Subscription. This placed many more restrictions on where the Oracle JDK could be used freely, namely for personal use, development and testing, Oracle-approved applications and in the Oracle Cloud. The new license was called the Oracle Technology Network License Agreement (OTNLA). In 2018, with the release of JDK 11, Oracle made a significant change to the license for the Oracle JDK. This provided stability for those deploying in most commercial environments, while allowing developers to explore and test new features as they were released. Subsequently, LTS releases would be every three years. As the most popular JDK in use at the time, JDK 8 was classified as LTS the next was JDK 11. Instead, only specific releases would be classified as long-term support (LTS). Oracle also announced that, because of the much faster cadence, they would not provide extended support and maintenance for all releases, as they had previously done. Since JDK 9, there has been a release every six months, in March and September. Rather than being feature-driven, resulting in anywhere from two to four years between releases, it would now be time-driven. In 2017, it was announced that there would be a major change to the release schedule for the OpenJDK. ![]() This was essentially the same as Sun’s license and permitted free use of the JDK anywhere except for embedded or single-use applications, e.g., a ticket kiosk. Initially, this was provided under the Oracle Binary Code License. Sun had already released the source code to Java through the OpenJDK project, but Oracle continued to provide a binary distribution of Java as the Oracle JDK. In 2010, Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems and became the owner of the Java trademark. ![]() Are you confused / worried by the recent Oracle Java licensing changes? Are you weighing up OpenJDK vs Oracle JDK but don’t know where to start? As a Java Champion and two-time recipient of the JavaOne Rockstar award, we asked Simon Ritter, Deputy CTO of Azul, for advice.
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