
I will be using Java SE for research, I will use Java code for the collection and/or processing of data, do I need to purchase a licence? No you can use Java SE for the purposes of teaching, which is covered under the development use. The Java Development Kit (JDK), including the JavaFX Software Development Kit (SDK), Java Runtime Environment (JRE), (server and regular packages) JavaFX Runtime JRockit JDK I will be teaching students Java, do I need a licence for this?

Note for all types of computers and use of Java updates after January 2019 via a browser will not be supported and should not be encouraged.Īny updates after the above versions and iterations will be chargeable. If the use is for teaching or academic research.The exceptions to this for both and machines are the


You will need to purchase a Java SE licence. However, with future Java updates you will not be able to do this. You can use a browser and installed applications with Java 8 (update 202) and other versions listed below, free of charge. We will contact application owners to re-test the application. These will need to repackaged to use Open JDK and not the native Java version. We are reviewing packaged applications that need to use Java JRE. We will update Java SE on to work with MyHR and MyFinance but you shouldn’t use the Java on with other applications How we are handling this across UCL machines The next update is expected in April and will be chargeable except for the use below. Future software updates, after the current Java Standard Edition (SE) update in January 2019 will be chargeable. The Java SE platform Licensing has changed.

Oracle Java Licensing changed in January 2019.
