In case your company has NOT obtained the right to make use of Oracle Java through another license agreement from Oracle (which is rather unlikely to be the case ), then the following use rights and restrictions are applicable for the deployment and use of Oracle Java Release 17 as per the "No Fee Terms and Conditions"
Oracle Weblogic), then your deployment and use of Oracle Java Release 17 is NOT governed by the “No Fee Terms and Conditions”. through an Oracle Java Standard Edition Subscription or as part of another Oracle license (e.g. If you as a company are already licensed for Oracle Java programs (e.g. The agreement first of all states that the use of Oracle Java - Release 17 is governed by the NFTC, unless you have received the program (stand-alone or as part of another Oracle program) under another Oracle License Agreement (e.g. Let’s have a close look at what the agreement actually says. Many individuals and/or consultancy firms now do think or claim: "with this new release and the new terms, Oracle Java is “free of charge” again! But as always, the devil is in the details. With this new release, Oracle introduced a new licensing terms and conditions as well under the so called “Oracle - No Fee Terms and Conditions (NFTC)” Therefore a lot of people didn't realize that the licensing actually applied to the runtime,” she told The Register.On September 13th 2021, Oracle released its new Long Term Support (LTS) release of Oracle Java : Release 17. Part of it might have been the difference between the Java Development Kit in the Java Runtime Environment: Oracle's product is called Oracle JDK, even though it is a runtime. “There were people who didn't really understand it.
“That's why these big companies are dealing with an annual price point of more than $10m,” she said.Īnother source of confusion was that Java subscriptions are required for the runtime environment, not the software development kit, she said. As with databases, organisations have to license for every processor without partitioning the virtual environment and only to licensing in one cluster, for example.
Oracle creates new form of free Solaris.DBAs massively over-provision Oracle to protect themselves: Microsoft.Openness of Oracle licensing and audit tools questioned.It recommends organisations evaluate their options by assessing the appetite to migrate to Java 17 or to switch to a third-party Java product. But many organizations have sort of done a rip and replace taking out Oracle Java and replacing it with Open JDK or other equivalents."Ī Gartner research note says users require a commercial subscription to obtain critical updates for Oracle Java SE 7, Java SE 8 and Java SE 11. “I've seen Fortune 500 organizations who basically uninstall Java overnight and then said, ‘Well, we'll see what breaks and, and if it breaks, then we'll put Java back’. “You are susceptible and vulnerable to any number of risks, whether it be the financial risks due to license shortfalls, but even security risks for that matter,” he said.Īmong organizations better prepared for the Oracle auditing process, some were seeking open-source alternatives, Jensen said.
Scott Jensen, Oracle practice lead, told The Register there was a group of organizations that had “wholly ignored the topic altogether” of Java licensing, creating risks for their employers. At the same time, defending audits for databases, middleware or applications requires customers to start from their contracts, whereas Java can be so widespread, it might require a technical analysis of the IT estates, Guarente said.Įarlier this year, software asset management company Anglepoint said it had spotted official Java audits coming from Oracle. While databases and other on-prem software may come with a perpetual licence, Java requires a subscription. There are two crucial differences with managing licensing of Java compared with Oracle’s other products. “Companies declaring 5,000 database licenses might get a knock on the door from a Java sales rep, saying, ‘We heard your environment is 5,000 CPUs: we don't see Java licenses for that' You can be giving Oracle information one week in one area that's being used in a completely different area,” he said. Oracle is also using auditing in other areas, such as databases, to access information about Java usage.