Hi Daniel,
The Sun SDK is free both to use and to sell programs that have been
compiled with it. The problem with it is only in terms of the source
code for the SDK itself. Java developers are not free to review the
source and/or improve on it.
Hope this clear it up for
Ed Murray
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 10:09, D Crow wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am a little confused with the discussion about what is free and not free when it
> comes to Java. Could someone tell me, if I use Sun's Java 1.4.x SDK on Debian to
> byte-compile some .java files, will I have to pay Sun some royalty in order to use
> the compiled program? I thought Sun is making the SDK available for free in order to
> promote Java against .NET.
>
> Thanks
>
>
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