I'm away on a first nations reserve for a few days, but I'll happily bring this to Oracle afterwards. Or someone can get hold of Dalibor Topic or one of the community team to discuss it a little more quickly. Always good to get these things cleared up
Cheers, Martijn On Saturday, 30 July 2011, martin_clausen <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know what the motive behind this specific license construct > is. > > I do know that it makes it very easy to get into what Oracle could > view as a non-compliance situation as most developers / ops persons > perceive Java to be freely available (with the exception of Java ME), > and will happily install the "Commercial Features" without realizing > the consequences. Oracle hasn't exactly made it easy to discover this > by making the "Commercial Features" subject to the same license (with > the built in exception) as Java 7 SE. > > /mac > > On Jul 30, 7:10 pm, Martijn Verburg <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> It's good that these things get raised. >> >> My IANAL take on this. Despite the legal language changes, it is not much >> (any?) different to how Sun had it with Java 5/6 and the commercial products >> that hung off that. >> >> A bunch of us raised this with Oracle back at the start of this year and >> they were adamant that they didn't intend to change things from how Sun ran >> it. >> >> If people are concerned about a particilar point then I'm happy to take that >> to Oracle, let me know! But i don't think this is a case of it being a >> deliberate malicious trap or anything (and I can get suspicious with the >> best of em ;p) >> >> Cheers, >> Martijn >> >> On Saturday, 30 July 2011, martin_clausen <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Has anyone noted the language regarding "Commercial Features" in the >> > Java 7 SE license agreement? >> >> > I found it curious and dug a bit around. It appears that while a >> > number of Java 7 SE JRockit and Java for Business features are freely >> > available for download from Oracle's site and subject to the same >> > license agreement as basic Java 7 SE, they may not be used for >> > production purposes without a separate license. I have put together a >> > short post here >> >> http://www.spyfoos.com/index.php/2011/07/28/oracle-java-7-and-commerc...> (shameless plug) that outlines the situation. >> >> > /mac >> >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> >> "The Java Posse" group.> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> >> [email protected].> For more options, visit this group at >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
