Thanks a lot. I read all your replies to this thread and I even agree with some of your opinions on this group. If they didn't know they should have just let your thread die off and fade away. Now it's on the #1 page of Google for "linux commercial license to use java" and because you chose to withold the information on Oracle's policy, I just wasted 30 minutes reading your angry replies. What a complete shit-thread this turned out to be.
On Monday, July 16, 2012 7:58:58 PM UTC-5, Grant Robertson wrote: > > This is a generic answer to all those people who jump in on EVERY question > about open-source licensing and just say, "go see a lawyer": > > SERIOUSLY? I'm just a guy who is thinking about writing some software in > a popular programming language. But before I get started I need to go find > a lawyer who specializes in open-source licensing and pay some serious > bucks just so they can give me what will essentially be a guess as to what > would happen if any of this went to court. SERIOUSLY? REALLY? > > > There are a lot of people writing a lot of Java code. The people who > started this Google Group claim to actually know a lot about it. Someone > HAS to actually know the answers to my questions. My questions are more > about policy than about law: > > - Does Oracle require people to register as Licensees just to > distribute their own Java Code? The statement on Oracle's web site is > confusing because they appear to have used the word "compatible" when they > meant to say "functionally identical"? > > Seriously, not a single soul in here knows the answer to that one? Or they > know, but I have to go have a lawyer tell me what Oracle's policy is? > Fortunately, other people elsewhere have given me a clean and unambiguous > answer. (Which I will NOT reveal here, because actual information is > apparently forbidden in this group.) > > My other question was about the accuracy of documentation: > > - Now that Oracle has rolled (or is planning to roll) "commercial > features" into non-commercial (supposedly free) distributions of Java, > will > it be easy for me to spot those features so I can avoid using them? > > Again, not a single response that even addresses the actual question. Just > calls to "go all open source all the way" and "go see a lawyer." Do you > guys go see a lawyer before you go to the bathroom? Why do you even respond > at all? Do you sit down and think, "How can I obfuscate information and > frustrate people as much as possible today?" > > If someone had just said, "I'm sorry, I don't know." that would have been > better than all the time-wasting, rabbit-hole digging, obfuscation. > > Needless to say, I will not be participating in this group again. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
