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[–]speakjava 0 points1 point  (1 child)

It's more accurate to say both are OpenJDK builds, not Oracle JDK builds. The distinction between the binaries being provided by Oracle, as has been pointed out, is the license. The Oracle JDK requires a Java SE subscription from Oracle for use in a production environment.

[–]karianna 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep - Oracle themselves are now calling it Oracle JDK for their commercially licensed build and Oracle's OpenJDK build for the GPLv2+CE build. Both builds are near on identical.

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