No, I think you're the one who's confused. The license *you* are
referring to is the SCSL - the source license for the VM. I'm referring
to the license agreement which accompanies the *add-on* libraries -
Java3D, Swing, etc.
--Jeff
Uncle George wrote:
>
> I think u need to reread the "open source" licensing requirements. They appear to be
> "commercial" in nature, and monetary in fact. Please extract the particular places
> from the licenses which states quite clearly that "non-commercial", if there is such
>a
> thing anymore, distribution & use is still available.
> I was only recently able to get a "non-commercial" 1.1.8, but java didn't forward me
> another non-commercial license for JDK1.2.1
> gat
>
> Jeff Galyan wrote:
>
> > Your comments assume a desire to distribute the JDK itself. There are no
> > restrictions or fees for distributing the software you develop, nor are
> > you restricted from distributing the *binaries* of add-on libraries you
> > get from Sun (there may be some exceptions on redistributing binary jars
> > of class libs, but I haven't seen Sun put any restrictions on them yet -
> > only commercial libraries that you have to pay for from other companies
> > carry restrictions).
> >
> > --Jeff
> >
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Jeff Galyan
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http://www.sun.com
jeffrey dot galyan at sun dot com
talisman at anamorphic dot com
Sun Certified Java(TM) Programmer
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