

Oracle had been gone on record as making every third release an LTS release.

This free-use period is referred as No-Fee Terms and Conditions or “NFTC”. When the next Long Term Service or “LTS” release is made available, the period of free use will end one (1) year later. Second, this announcement has an event horizon.The JRE for commercial or production use remains licensable. Since Java SE 10, there has been a single download, but Oracle will now make the JRE (“Java Runtime Environment”) and the JDK separate.

