Bundling Tomcat
Hello all...I'm not sure if I'm sending this to right place to ask this, but you're all developers and some of you might be doing something similar...I will be developing a piece of software that is built using servlets and JSPs and we'll be using Tomcat as our servlet container, now, when the product is developed and tested and ready to ship...have any of you bundled Tomcat with your product to sell to a customer and what types of royalties and red tape do you have to go through with Apache in order to do something like that? Is there a section of the Jakarta site that deals with all these legal GPL issues and limitations and what have you? Any help is greatly appreciated. And if this question can't be answered on this list, can someone possibly head in me in the correct direction? Much appreciated, Rob Brueckmann
RE: Bundling Tomcat
I have dealt with it. The software license spells it out pretty clearly - Tomcat is free to distribute. No royalties, no permission required. What you do need to be aware of is that you can't freely redistribute the JDK. You'll need to either pre-compile your JSPs or distribute another Java Compiler (like Jikes from IBM), or somehow get Sun's legal department to give you permission. Randy -Original Message- From: Robert L. Brueckmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 2:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bundling Tomcat Hello all...I'm not sure if I'm sending this to right place to ask this, but you're all developers and some of you might be doing something similar...I will be developing a piece of software that is built using servlets and JSPs and we'll be using Tomcat as our servlet container, now, when the product is developed and tested and ready to ship...have any of you bundled Tomcat with your product to sell to a customer and what types of royalties and red tape do you have to go through with Apache in order to do something like that? Is there a section of the Jakarta site that deals with all these legal GPL issues and limitations and what have you? Any help is greatly appreciated. And if this question can't be answered on this list, can someone possibly head in me in the correct direction? Much appreciated, Rob Brueckmann
RE: Bundling Tomcat
Unless you need the JDK, you can distribute the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) which Sun has made available. One note: the JRE does not include tools.jar... From the JRE Readme file: - The Java 2 Runtime Environment is intended for software developers and vendors to redistribute with their applications. The Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment contains the Java virtual machine, runtime class libraries, and Java application launcher that are necessary to run programs written in the Java progamming language. It is not a development environment and does not contain development tools such as compilers or debuggers. For development tools, see the Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition. -Original Message- From: Randy Layman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 2:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Bundling Tomcat I have dealt with it. The software license spells it out pretty clearly - Tomcat is free to distribute. No royalties, no permission required. What you do need to be aware of is that you can't freely redistribute the JDK. You'll need to either pre-compile your JSPs or distribute another Java Compiler (like Jikes from IBM), or somehow get Sun's legal department to give you permission. Randy -Original Message- From: Robert L. Brueckmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 2:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bundling Tomcat Hello all...I'm not sure if I'm sending this to right place to ask this, but you're all developers and some of you might be doing something similar...I will be developing a piece of software that is built using servlets and JSPs and we'll be using Tomcat as our servlet container, now, when the product is developed and tested and ready to ship...have any of you bundled Tomcat with your product to sell to a customer and what types of royalties and red tape do you have to go through with Apache in order to do something like that? Is there a section of the Jakarta site that deals with all these legal GPL issues and limitations and what have you? Any help is greatly appreciated. And if this question can't be answered on this list, can someone possibly head in me in the correct direction? Much appreciated, Rob Brueckmann
