Summary: Licensing/copyright issues with Java sdk & jre

Thanks to Brad for his contribution which is
appended below :

I'm pretty sure that Java is 100% free. 

I think that licensing is independent of how an
application is packaged. I have free stuff that was
packaged (I used pkgadd to install it, it shows up in
pkginfo output, etc), and I have packages that have
all kinds of licenses. I also have expensive stuff
with multiple licenses that shipped as a tar file, and
free stuff that wasn't packaged in Sun's pkg format. I
do notice that most licensed stuff is packaged, and
most free stuff shows up as a tar, cpio, or ZIP
archive, but that's just a reflection of the time and
effort required to package things.

Packages are way cool. They tend to go in more
smoothly, the installation has built-in tests to
branch based on your OS version and just about
anything else that the packager deems as significant. 


--- Gold Sun <goldsun8@yahoo.com.sg> wrote:

> Hi All,
>  
>  
> Is Java JDK/JRE free or there's some licensing issue
> involved
> (though we can download it freely from sun website).
>  
> Appreciate if anyone can also provide inputs on Java
> sdk/jre
> that are installed on competitor vendors' internal
> servers
> (say Linux/Solaris servers owned by HP/IBM/MS) ?
>  
> What's the difference in the licensing issue between
> the
> packages (like SUNWj3dmo, SUNWj3jmp, SUNWj3man,
> SUNWj3rt, SUNWj3cfg) that are installed using pkgadd
> vs those JRE/JDK files & directories that I've
> expanded
> & installed in /usr (if any)?
>  
> If this is something sensitive & you do not want me
> to
> summarize your inputs, kindly indicate in your
> response
> & I won't summarize your reply.
>  
> Thanks
> G Sun
>  
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