Do I need to sign up to some form of Sun license to use java

[Pep]

A colleague pointed out the requirement to sign a general license
regarding the use/re-use of the java license by our company before we
use Java.

However, having scanned the license it looks like we only need to sign
a license/agreement if we are planning on modifying or redistributing
the Java source code ourselves.

It looks like if we are simply developing a inhouse application which
will not go on to 3rd parties then we do not need to do this?

TIA,
Pep.

 

[Thomas Weidenfeller]

A colleague pointed out the requirement to sign a general license
regarding the use/re-use of the java license by our company before we
use Java.

Is your colleague a lawyer? Only (sort of) trust lawyers when you need
legal advice. For the same reason asking for legal advice on Usenet
doesn't really work. If things go wrong with advice from Usenet, do you
think a judge will buy your claim "But that guy on Usenet told me so!"?

It looks like if we are simply developing a inhouse application which
will not go on to 3rd parties then we do not need to do this?

Ask a lawyer if you need solid advice. I personally (I am not a lawyer)
have never heard about someone signing a Sun license just for developing
and distributing a Java application and the JRE, but that doesn't mean much.

/Thomas

 

[Pep]

No he's anal

The sort of person that spends 2 hours reading each and every release
note in a MS service pack before applying the patch and spends another
couple of hours compiling a email to send back to them pointing out
there spelling msitakes.

You give sound advice, though I accept it is not legally binding and
therefore ...

BTW, it's the first I had heard of this weird license requirement
either.

Cheers,
Pep.

 

[Virgil Green]

No he's anal

The sort of person that spends 2 hours reading each and every release
note in a MS service pack before applying the patch and spends another
couple of hours compiling a email to send back to them pointing out
there spelling msitakes.

What's wrong with that?

 

[Alan Krueger]

The sort of person that spends 2 hours reading each and every release
note in a MS service pack before applying the patch and spends another
couple of hours compiling a email to send back to them pointing out
there spelling msitakes.

You misspelled "spleling".

 

[Pep]

ROFL

 

[Pep]

When everyone else is busy working on a urgent project and the project
manager gets sacked for the deadlines slipping because the work
scheduled to that person is not done?

Quite a lot.