It's in this URL
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,33261,00.html
To be exact ...
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LINUXWORLD, SAN JOSE, Calif., March 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Sun Microsystems,
Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW -
news) today announced that it has licensed its leading Java (TM) Media
technologies to the Linux Blackdown
Porting Team, an informal group of Linux developers. The licensing
agreement delivers the inherent strengths of the
Java programming environment to Linux users and includes the following
Sun (TM) application programming
interfaces (APIs): Java 3D (TM) API, Java Media Framework API, Java
Advanced Imaging API and Java Sound
API. This agreement enables the Linux community to develop and
distribute media-enhanced applications for the
Java 2 platform for non-commercial use. For the first time, Linux
developers will be able to create
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platform-independent, network-centric applications for educational,
business and technical users with the
easy-to-use Java Media APIs.
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I'm hoping they are talking about the source code and not the binaries.
In windows I think you can distribute the jre+java3d runtimes for a
product, free of charge, which is what it kind of says in the
java3d-license.html page.
Could somebody clarify this ? I hope Sun is not planning on charging
developers royalties whenever we use certain "standard" java apis ?!?!
-Augusto
David Harvill wrote:
>
> I didn't find this statement at the URL you provided.
>
> -dave
>
> On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Ron Yorston wrote:
>
> > >From the Sun announcement:
> >
> > >This agreement enables the Linux community to develop and distribute
> > >media-enhanced applications for the Java 2 platform for non-commercial use.
> >
> > Why the limitation to non-commercial use? Maybe I don't understand the
> > terms, but the licence on the Sun site for other platforms doesn't seem
> > to have any such restriction.
> >
> > (http://www.javasoft.com/products/java-media/3D/java3d-license.html)
> >
> > Ron
> >
> >
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Augusto Sellhorn
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