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Java licensing

From	Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Java licensing
Date	2018-12-13 20:48 -0500
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<puv250$3lu$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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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

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Java licensing Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> - 2018-12-13 20:48 -0500
  Re: Java licensing Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2018-12-13 21:05 -0500
    Re: Java licensing Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2018-12-13 21:10 -0500
      Re: Java licensing Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2018-12-14 10:42 +0100
        Re: Java licensing Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-12-14 06:24 -0800

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