They could also not include the commercial features in the standard download and make you download additional stuff to use the commercial features as they do with the Unlimited encryption packages.
Yeah, but what does "CommercialFeatures" mean? How much do each use of each function costs you? If you are already paying for standard Java support, wouldn't you assume it includes these features?
Also, one particular company with tens of thousands of installations was hit by Oracle lawyers because a software they bought from third party had for some reason this flag enabled.
I think "Commercial Features" is pretty much clear enough, especially since the Oracle paid features aren't really kept in secret.
Re:OpenJDK now available for Windows
by dispose13432 on Thursday December 22, 2016 @04:06PM
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What extra functionality does it include?
I'm finding this confusing as well. I write some Java programs for my employer. I just use the SDK/JDK. Most of what we do is use apache came, with spring and apache httpclient with some other non-oracle libraries for processing json or xml.
How do I figure out if we are at risk? We use the apps in-house only.
Re:OpenJDK now available for Windows
by agibsonccc on Thursday December 22, 2016 @01:19PM
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As was said above - figure out if your IT department is enabling that flag when running your java applications in production.
Re:OpenJDK now available for Windows
by dispose13432 on Thursday December 22, 2016 @04:08PM
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What do you do if you run commercial code?
Re:OpenJDK now available for Windows
by wildmusings on Friday December 23, 2016 @11:50AM
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The only thing you should really ever do if you have legal concerns: contact legal, and only legal, immediately in a way that preserves attorney-client privilege. If you have concerns about personal legal liability, then contact your own lawyer.
Re:OpenJDK now available for Windows
by agibsonccc on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @03:25AM
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Openjdk is fine for commercial applications. If you have commercial code openjdk will work fine. Just make sure that flag isn't enabled.
Openjdk doesn't have all the same features as the oracle jdk (javafx etc)
The definition of "general purpose computing" is confusing to me, I've no idea where full computers/desktops that control specific devices would fall under this definition.