Out of curiosity I spoke with a Java licensing representative at Sun.
While the source code is free, implementing it on our platform is our
challenge and certification for redistribution of a J2SE implementation is
in the $75k to $100k range.

J2SE provides an option for headless configurations and we'd be Ok in the
test harness without GUI features.

Frank Gribbin

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:17:49 -0800, Gavin Scott <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Frank asks:
>> Gavin: What kind of licensing would be needed for Java ?
>
>I believe you need to be a big company prepared to shell out a lot of money
>to Sun for a Java license and meet many very complex and expensive
>requirements.  And then if you want to get into things like Enterprise Java
>features I think there's a whole new set of licensing and stuff.
>
>There are 3rd-party (and some free) Java execution systems, compilers, and
>class-library implementations, but none are really a replacement for the
>full Sun Java implementations which change on a regular basis.
>
>Once HP stops producing Java for MPE, there will be no future releases.
>
>G.
>
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