Zulu CA builds carry no licensing fee; Zulu SA builds come with an Azul Core subscription
Catalog row in Vendor License Rules · Cited
- Kind
- Entitlement
- Statement
- Azul distinguishes an unlicensed Community Availability (CA) build and a licensed Subscriber Availability (SA) build of Azul Zulu. CA requires no licensing fees; SA, provided through Azul Core, adds support, quarterly security-only updates and patches between quarterly updates. The runtime reports "-CA" in its build string for community builds (documentation example). (vendor page undated; as published on 2026-09-27)
- Applies when
- Distinguishing free and subscribed Zulu installations.
- Applies to
- Azul Zulu Builds of OpenJDK
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