Employee-based licensing for Oracle Java products
Introduction
This article explains how to manage license compliance according to terms from Oracle Java SE Universal Subscription as effectively introduced as of January 2023 by Oracle Corporation.
Oracle Java SE Universal Subscription defines that every "Employee" in the organization needs a subscription for Oracle Java SE. Please refer to official documentation from Oracle for determining, which criteria applies to determine the number of "Employees".
Accordingly, the number and locations of any Java SE installation is irrelevant.
How to manage
Oracle Java SE Universal Subscription is not divided in "Desktop" and "Server".
Therefore, it is recommended to disable license requirements from installations for
- "Oracle, Java Runtime Environment (Desktop)" and
- "Oracle, Java Runtime Environment (Server)"
Afterwards, create one license requirement for "Oracle, Java Runtime Environment (Desktop)" for the organizational scope.
- Disable creation of license requirements from installations
- Navigate to software products and find the Oracle Java SE product where license requirements are created from installation
- Click on "Edit"
- In edit form, navigate to the page "License Requirements" and there open tabulator "Fingerprints"
- Uncheck the check-box "Automatically create license requirements fro assigned Fingerprints"
- In edit form, navigate to page "License Models" and add - if not yet present - "Oracle | Java SE - Employees" to the list of relevant license models.
- Save the changes and close the dialog.
- Create a manual license requirement for the organization
- Run the action "Define License Requirements" for the same software product
- Select "Oracle | Java SE - Employees" as license model and
"Anonymous" as consumer type determining the organizational scope
- On next page of the wizard, uncheck the check-box "Calculate quantity automatically" and enter the number of licenses you need according to Oracle's license terms.
- Finish the wizard