JAVA JRE licence

Skilli

Hi All,

I'm negotiating with my IT department at my university about setting up a server to run Jatos. They tell me that  JAVA JRE can only be used on the server at the university with a yearly subscription. Can someone tell me if this is correct? It seems that I can download JAVA JRE here https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase-downloads.html. I really dont understand the licence agreement https://www.oracle.com/downloads/licenses/javase-license1.html

Can I use OPENJDK instead https://openjdk.java.net/install/ ?

Many Thanks

Deiniol

kri

Hi Deiniol,

What your IT departmentis refering to is probalby that the Oracle JDK is commercial these days (https://blog.joda.org/2018/09/do-not-fall-into-oracles-java-11-trap.html). And you are completely right there are others and they are for free and open-source. So there is no need to pay for any licence for Java. And the OpenJDK one is actually the reference implementation of the JDK. This is one of the pages where you can get it: https://adoptopenjdk.net/. I think the page openjdk.java.net/install is not the most current one.

Best,

Kristian