Oracle changing Java SE license per user [pdf]

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10 pointsludovicianul4 comments

This is the price sheet for Oracle's commercial Java distribution. You're almost certainly not using this and instead using an open source distribution of OpenJDK provided by Eclipse, Amazon, Azul, etc.

I don't get it: won't this just encourage the abandonment of Java?

This doesn't apply to OpenJDK, only to their enterprise distribution.

nah most people use openjdk or other vm's. java se needed a license for a long time anyway (since 9 or so) and basically openjdk includes everything that you need except some premium features like graalvm enterprise and other stuff.

java se is based on openjdk and includes more stuff basically. java se also offers long support (I think they even offer java8 support) alternatively you can get longer support via adoptium which was born when java 9 was released because oracle only wanted to give support for 6 months for openjdk (they changed that and the license back and forth and now all people use openjdk and other distributions)

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