The end of OpenJDK for commercial use

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I created a slightly misleading title. If I read this right, it's the end of updates to OpenJDK for commercial use at the end of 2019. But that's almost the same thing - given security considerations, could you use it after there are no longer updates?

Only updates, and only to JDK 8. Oracle has moved to two version updates per year with sometimes large changes, and they want to prevent fragmentation.

And OpenJDK is GPLv2, so I would think you’re free to update it yourself, or find a third party willing to do that for you (I don’t know of any, but if there is demand, I’m fairly sure there will be one, possibly under a different name, if Oracle claims the right to the name)

I believe that's only Java 8. Which makes sense.. by the end of 2019, why keep using Java 8? I think this also only applies to the "OpenJDK from Oracle" builds. I expect other vendors can (and will) still provide OpenJDK builds.

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