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 > >
