Selling Java apps?

Brian Knoblauch · 09-02-2005, 07:53 AM

What development environments have licensing that allows developed Java apps to be sold? It appears that Netbeans and even the Sun toolsets only allow applications to be developed for internal commercial use and not for resale? There does not seem to be any such restriction on the JDK itself, but writing the code in vi is not terribly attractive

Options are limited as they're J2ME apps (so, Eclipse won't work)...

Lars79 · 09-02-2005, 09:00 AM

Hello,

honestly I don't know anything about the restrictions of Netbeans, but I can't imagine that you can't use it for commercial purposes. But there is also the possibility to use Eclipse for J2ME projects. You could use EclipseME (http://eclipseme.org/) together with the Wireless Toolkit from Sun (http://java.sun.com/products/sjwtoolkit/). Maybe you should give that a try.

Lars

jlliagre · 09-02-2005, 11:39 AM

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It appears that Netbeans and even the Sun toolsets only allow applications to be developed for internal commercial use and not for resale?

Where did you get that ?
This is just plain mis-information. You can obviously do whatever you want with applications you write with Netbeans or Sun development tools ...

Brian Knoblauch · 09-02-2005, 01:08 PM

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Originally posted by jlliagre
Where did you get that ?
This is just plain mis-information. You can obviously do whatever you want with applications you write with Netbeans or Sun development tools ...

From reading the license agreements. That's what I read "internal business use" to mean. Selling products would be using the tool for external business use...

Also, the MIDP package that it looks like I'll need to deploy along with my app cannot be used for anything other than internal testing (no deployment with our product) without "special licensing" of some kind.

I *finally* found an e-mail address for licensing concerns at Sun. Hopefully I get a reply back soon.

jlliagre · 09-02-2005, 03:21 PM

Netbeans license agreement ??

Have you a pointer to this license ?