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not freely redistributable
Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Tuesday, May 15 2012 @ 08:24 PM EDT
Just like you have to do if you want to do
Android development. The Android SDK does not
contain the Java SDK or runtime. You must download
and install that yourself.


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You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.

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It's worse than just not freely redistributable
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 15 2012 @ 10:07 PM EDT
No, you also have to stay away from this: "The use of Software in systems and solutions that provide dedicated functionality" in section one of the license. While you can just redistribute jar files to the customer, the customer also isn't licensed for use in systems and solutions providing dedicated functionality, and you put your customer at risk of license infringement suits. There are a number of examples I won't repeat here. The basic premise seems to be that if you take away the JVM and the product doesn't work, and that the JVM is always running, that you probably need to pay for a license to use the Oracle binaries. But, if you are lucky, Oracle will only sue for statuary damages, not infringer's profits.

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