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To put it in simple terms, if youвЂ™re downloading a Docker imageВ that contains OracleвЂ™s JDK, youвЂ™re not holding up your part in the agreement. This is where Docker rises as another part of an already tangled relationship: the redistribution section in the agreement has a direct affect on Docker images that use a compiled version of Java. YouвЂ™ll find that OracleвЂ™s License Agreement is very easy to break, especially if youвЂ™re downloading your Java files from someone else. вЂњThe time of most open source developers is a pretty scarce quantity, and as a result I expect very few OpenJDK devs would be interested in tracking down or reproducing a bug that an end user has on one of these вЂњmystery meatвЂќ builds, as thereвЂ™s every chance that the reported bug might have been fixed before the next release branch.вЂќ No redistribution? No Docker Ben shed some light on OracleвЂ™s License Agreement and OpenJDK builds used in popular Java Docker Your blogpost gives advice that expressly violates the license for Oracle Java & leaves your readers with legal liability - Ben Evans January 27, 2016Д«en further explained that the issue with Debian or Ubuntu OpenJDK builds is that they do not correspond to any known version of Java вЂњItвЂ™s therefore almost impossible to know what commit on the source tree the Debian / Ubuntu binaries correspond to.вЂќД«en added that the binaries havenвЂ™t been through any of the compatibility and conformance testing that certified Java binaries (from Oracle, Red Hat or Azul) have been subjected to. The comment came from Ben Evans, co-founder and technical fellow at jClarity, Java editor at infoQ and author at OвЂ™Reilly Media. We received a comment on Twitter that caught our attention.

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In one of our latest posts we showed you how to make your Docker 7x lighter with Alpine Linux, using a smaller Java image.

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Debian users are able to download the Oracle Java tar manually from Oracle, and use java-package to install it, CentOS requires users to download the rpm provided from Oracle at, so theyвЂ™ll be able to accept the license manually, while RedHat provides instructions on how to add a repo that is maintained by Oracle. This requirement lead to that most Linux distributions are unwilling to redistribute Oracle Java on their own channels. A deeper dive into the JDK readme file indicates that you can only distribute unmodified versions of the JRE and JDK, as long as you follow the instructions of keeping the required files.

While Oracle JDK is free to download and free for commercial use, the agreement raises a question when it comes to redistribution.

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вЂњOracle grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited license without fees to reproduce and distribute the Software, provided that (i) you distribute the Software complete and unmodified and only bundled as part of, and for the sole purpose of running, your ProgramsвЂ¦вЂќ However, when reading section C of OracleвЂ™s License Agreement weвЂ™ve encountered the following text: Users can still use OracleвЂ™s JDK, when all they have to do is download it themselves, instead of getting it directly from the repository. This means that standard software repositories lack built-in Java and Oracle Java. Oracle Java is not available on most Linux distributions, due to the fact that Oracle retired the вЂњOperating System Distributor License for JavaвЂќ (JDL). Psst! More worried about downtime and failed transactions than potential legal action by Oracle? OverOps helps teams set up quality gates, based on new or increasing errors and slowdowns, so at-risk code is blocked from ever reaching production.

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In this post we will help you get the full picture and make an informed decision about your use of Java and Docker. If youвЂ™re using Docker, the plot thickens, and you might be breaking the law by violating OracleвЂ™s License Agreement without even knowing it. Major distributions require users to jump through a few more hoops in order to use OracleвЂ™s Java. The relationship between Oracle and Linux had its ups and downs. Using Oracle Java with Docker might put you in legal liability.

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