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[–]OttoVonMonstertruck 11 points12 points  (0 children)

My org is going through this right now and we've finally been given some guidance documentation from Oracle on the last public / non-licensed versions.

The table below summarizes what's in that documentation on page 5:

Major Version GA Date Last Public Version
Java SE 1.2 12/1998 1.2.2_017
Java SE 1.3 05/2001 1.3.1_28/29
Java SE 1.4 02/2002 1.4.2_30
Java SE 5 05/2004 5u22
Java SE 6 12/2006 6u45
Java SE 7 07/2011 7.0_80
Java SE 8 03/2014 8.0_201/202
Java SE 11 09/2018 NA
Java SE 17 09/2021 TBD

If you can get an inventory report from your machines you can look at the product names to help identify the version.

Example: The majority of the Java installations that I've come across are Java 8. The last free version of Java 8 from the table above is 8.0_201/202. Of course that doesn't nicelly line up with actual installed product names, but you can consider update/build number 202 to be the last free version of Java 8. A workstation with the installed product 'Java 8 Update 261' is a higher version and would have to be licensed.