JDK 17 Approaches End-Of-Permissive License
Oracle News, Tuesday, April 16th, 2024
Oracle makes available the most recent Java SE releases, including the latest releases for which it offers Long-Term-Support (LTS), under a permissive license (Oracle No-Fee Terms and Conditions 'NFTC').
Updates to older releases are offered under the Java SE OTN license. To allow users of NFTC releases time for a transition, we offer one year of overlap of LTS releases under the permissive license. The release of Oracle JDK 21 in September of 2023, which Oracle announced it will offer long term support for, started the one-year transition period for NFTC users of JDK 17.