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- JuZ0Contributor
Is not SoapUI bundled with OpenJDK? Therefore no Oracle licensing worries.
- dfeaginNew Contributor
Here is what our IT department had to say about the answer above:
If we look at the Java.exe located at C:\Program Files (x86)\SmartBear\SoapUI-5.4.0\jre\bin\ in the file description it indicates Java™ which I take to be Oracles Java trademark. Therefore, I do not think it is OpenJDK
One thing in our favor is that Most are Under version 8.0.202 which was free of licensing… however, since this comes built into a vendor supplied application, did the vendor have re-distribution rights?
- JuZ0Contributor
5.4.0 is quite old version. Here is some release history article: https://www.soapui.org/downloads/latest-release/release-history/
It says for 5.4.0 following: ”SoapUI now uses Java 1.8.”. SoapUI 5.6.0 has following mention: ”Support for openJDK 12”
So the switch from Oracle Java 8 implementation to OpenJDK happened in 5.6.0 version on 2020.
I think Oracle renewed its licensing politics after JDK 11 which lead many organizations to move to OpenJDK implementations.
- dfeaginNew Contributor
I ended up uninstalling all older versions and installed the latest version and that resolved the licensing issue for us. Thanks!