I did read the licence but .. can I use sdk or jre in a commercial environnment (not just research developpment but production environment .. ) ?

Simple question .. and it was not clear to me in the licence ..

Eriam


Bill Barker a �crit:

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On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Eriam Schaffter wrote:


Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 02:08:47 +0000
From: Eriam Schaffter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Hi all .. licence issue ..

I just did right now ..

One question remains wich is a bit off-topic but maybe people hav
experience with it ..

Does tomcat includes code from sun (code not covered by Apache licence)
and if yes what parts ?


Tomcat binary distributions (other than the LE version for 1.4-based JVMs)
include the following Sun packages that are redistributable according to
the Sun binary license:


* activation.jar (JavaBeans Activation Framework APIs)
* jdbc2_0-stdext.jar (JDBC 2.0 Optional Package APIs)
* jndi.jar (Java Naming and Directory Interface APIs)
* jta.jar (Java Transaction Architecture APIs)
* mail.jar (JavaMail APIs)
* jaas.jar (Java Authencation and Authorization Service APIs)


The LE version of Tomcat doesn't include these, because they have all been
built in to a JDK 1.4 JVM.


Nearly all the other code is from Apache, under the Apache Software
License. Exceptions include:


* mx4j-jmx.jar (Open source implementation of JMX - license included)


Actually can I use the java sdk from sun in a business environment for
free ?


As with all software, you need to obey the terms of the license. In the
case of a Sun JDK, the terms and conditions are in the license you had to
click through to download it. You DID read that, didn't you?

;-)


Does tomcat run with kaffe or another GPL JVM .. ?



I don't know of anyone who has tested Tomcat under such JVMs -- it's
possible but IMHO not real likely to run reliably.

There is at least one of the developers who tests against kaffe and gcj.
Unfortunately for you, he doesn't spend a lot of his time on the 4.x
version. According to his reports, at least at one point, Tomcat 4 ran fine
with kaffe and gcj (and commented that gcj didn't really beat HotSpot :).
The only way to know for sure is to test your application against it.


Eriam

Craig



Subir Sengupta a �crit:


Have you looked here
http://www.apache.org/foundation/licence-FAQ.html

-----Original Message-----
From: Eriam Schaffter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 5:54 PM
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Subject: Hi all .. licence issue ..


I would like to hack a little with tomcat .. I think it would be no
problem but my question is if then I want to redistribute a product with
tomcat stuff in it what are the requierements ?
Does tomcat includes any sun proprietary code ?
Is it GPL ?
Can I just take tomcat sources, recompile it with added features and
distribute back both to tomcat community and to public under my own or
my company's brand ?
If think it must just be as easier as it (stating in my softs that I use
some code from apache fundation ..) as I believe the tomcat licence
allows that kind of deals ..

Am I right ?

Thanks for any tips ..

Eriam Schaffter


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