Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rhino Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Java licensing Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 20:48:15 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 31 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 01:48:16 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="5d056457022e58e54ea45f081b521e83"; logging-data="3774"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/ReQ6chDYtXrYKB1X2CnhGuBI2+syWmQU=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.3.3 Cancel-Lock: sha1:cq9YNw8lCvbd9lGY31XfJyHYE04= X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Content-Language: en-US X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 181213-2, 2018-12-13), Outbound message X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.eternal-september.org:119 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:38690 I'm late to the party on this one but I'm hoping to catch up.... I saw messages to the effect that Java licensing is changing several months back when I last updated my Java 8.* JDK but hadn't taken the time to look into it. Tonight, I realized my version of Eclipse on this machine was getting pretty dated and decided to update it to Eclipse 2018-09. When I launched the new version, it converted my workspace, as uual, and immediately broke all my JavaFX code. Every single JavaFX import was suddenly invalid. I decided to install the latest Java 10 JDK, only to find that JDK 10 is already out of support so I found the current JDK for Java 11. Before downloading it, I saw the important notice about the licensing and finally read it. The bit that caught my eye was that it only allowed me to write demos with it; I could NOT write code for my own personal use or to support a very low-traffic website used by a club I'm in, as I have been doing for a while now. Well, I suppose there *is* a way but I'm guessing it involves giving someone money for the privilege. The license agreement doesn't talk about this so my first question is: how do I get the right to use the code I've written for my own personal use and to support my club's website? The Oracle website said another option I had was to use the Java 11 under a GPL license, which seems like it would allow what I want to do. So I downloaded the Open JDK for Java 11 but I'm darned if I can figure out how to coax Eclipse to use it; it doesn't contain a JRE and that's what Eclipse wants. So, my second question is: can I get Eclipse to use the Open JDK and, if so, how? -- Rhino