Yes that's it, they offer it for download. People click " I agree" and install. Then it phones home and oracle knocks on your door with huge license fee and or lawsuit.

I think its will be goes to deeper specific technical & business sides to looking justification to use Oracle Java SE. Its pretty uncommon, but generally, most of us here just developing application and/or backend for commercial implementation, and didn't require much deeper technical things, like using other JDK's than Oracle Java SE is still handling good in most of our cases.

If you pay to Bellsoft or Azul, I think you'll pay for commercial support from them, like if you running company and using much Java in productions, implementing Java in mass scale, and/or enterprise support, and really need or require support system from Bellsoft/Azul.

*cmiiw

Amazon Corretto is free even for commercial use and is optimized to run on AWS infra.

If you're not on AWS then you have little reason to use it though it's not a bad JDK distro itself.

I personally use Eclipse Temurin both in personal projects and at work.

As @deathmetal27@lemmy.world answered, and adding my personal answer, personally I didn't see any problem by using Amazon Corretto.

Currently, there are no contracts nor paid licenses by using Amazon Corretto in commercial use and even in enterprise environment. Nothing, just use it. Compared with Oracle Java SE where if you use it in commercial purpose, Oracle may caught and demand you to pay.

And I spent some of times in AWS too, and I felt, using dual JDK's builds (Corretto for work, and another builds (let say Temurin or Zulu) for personal) is still kinda inefficient. This is the reason of why I stick to Amazon Corretto.

But, if you didn't using AWS and/or didn't like Amazon in general, nobody can force and stop you, there are alternatives, and you can use Temurin, Zulu, or Liberica.