Hello:
I am inquiring into the licensing pertaining to distributing the jdk/jre from sun.
The reason I ask is that I would like to provide a client with an ISO disk image that includes my application plus the jdk or jre dependency.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Christiaan
So long as you do not modify it and do not charge money for it, you can bundle the installation binary along with your app. The jars are not sufficient.
Many people have been bundling the JDK into their applications without paying any fees. The user is not bothered with the licensing issues as the JDK/JRE is already extracted and any other dependency is also bundled.
I often see that question asked but Sun doesn't provide a clear and simple answer to it. "If you would like to embed the JVM in commercial applications, you have to pay some fees". Such a note should be displayed in each download page in my opinion.