The Oracle JDK “is available free of charge for production use again,” reports InfoQ, under a new “Oracle No-Fee Terms and Conditions” license.
The move, announced in mid-September, “reverses a 2018 decision to charge for Oracle JDK production use and does not affect Oracle’s OpenJDK distribution,” they write, noting that the new license “applies to the recently released version 17 of Oracle JDK and future versions.”
Donald Smith, Senior Director of Product Management at Oracle, explained the reason for this decision in a recent blog post, writing:
“Providing Oracle OpenJDK builds under the GPL was highly welcomed, but feedback from developers, academia, and enterprises was that they wanted the trusted, rock-solid Oracle JDK under an unambiguously free terms license, too. Oracle appreciates the feedback from the developer ecosystem and are pleased to announce that as of Java 17 we are delivering on exactly that request.”
Smith explicitly stated that the No-Fee Terms and Conditions license “includes commercial and production use” [although the license does not seem to highlight this fact] and stated that “redistribution is permitted as long as it is not for a fee.”
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