Oracle License Changes coming Jan 2019

Oracle is requiring $$ to license Java for commercial use Starting Jan 2019. How does this affect a business using GanttProject? In our case, we use GanttProject hosted on a Remote Desktop Server and accessed by many folks.

This is not quite true. What really will happen is that “Oracle will not post further updates of Java SE 8 to its public download sites for commercial use after January 2019”. Java SE 8 was released in Mar 2014, and has been superseded by Java 9 (Sep 2017) and Java 10 (Mar 2018). They all remain free. It is just that critical security updates to Java SE 8 will be available to paying users only, which is quite fair given that Oracle spends significant efforts on maintaining Java 8.

GanttProject runs fine on Java 10, so unless your business, and in particular launching GanttProject really requires Java 8, you are not affected by this “change”.

That’s really fantastic news! Thank you for the very informative reply.
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