Are Java programs and applets freely redistributable?
The Sun licensing page has this to say: The unmodified Java and HotJava binary releases may be redistributed free of charge in both commercial and non-commercial applications. Also: Companies or individuals who wish to create a new port of the Java language have the right under this agreement to post the binaries of that port to the Internet for use by others, as long as the port is free of charge and passes the publicly available test suites. (Test suites will be available sometime in the first half of 1996.) The “diffs” may also be posted on the web as long as the underlying source code is not posted. The Java source code is So if you’ve got a working Java or HotJava binary, you can give it to your buddies. Or put it on a CD-ROM. Or do anything except patch it and represent the patched version as Java. (This is reasonable. Sun obviously can’t leave itself without recourse against Trojan horses sailing under the Java banner.) Binaries are FRS.
