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Java SE 8 licensing is confusing! Help needed.

JasonOMay 2 2019 — edited May 9 2019

Hi all,


I needed some clarification regarding the latest Java licensing changes to Java SE 8.

I'm unable to open any ticket to support as I am don't purchase any Java product from Oracle but only Database Products, MOS has rejected my question before as what I'm asking isn't related to my purchased product.

So basically the question is regarding Java JRE which were installed to all our office laptops. During the latest update of Java 8 we (IT Teams) got some questions from our users regarding a pop up stating the changes on Java's licensing which are now strictly for personal use & not commercial use. We are using Java SE 8 mainly because we have a very old web portal which require Java JRE for some of it's calender pop ups. This users are not doing any sort of developments using java but merely end users.

So how does this new licensing terms affect us? I tried to install OpenJDK's JRE but none of them works on the web portal as the pop up will not open.

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