Using Java Commercially

I am currently in the process of writing some software in Java that I may one day decide to sell online. I am usin开发者_开发百科g the Java SE library. Do I have to pay any licensing feels to Oracle if I plan to sell this, because with the recent news of Oracle suing Google I am concerned for the future of this platform.

Thanks,

You are free to sell Java software without any licensing issues. The Oracle/Google lawsuit is specifically about Google's alleged breaches of several Oracle patents, which are all to do with JVM implementation details. If you're writing software to run ON the JVM, you don't have an issue. For more info on the lawsuit, see the lengthy blogpost by Charles Nutter.

Obviously, though, IANAL.

From my remembrances, it seems to me that, as long as you don't ship a Java VM with your product (but rather explain to your users how to download it from Oracle), you won't have any issues.

If you read the news carefully, you'll soon realize, that the lawsuit is limited to googles Dalvik virtual machine which is used on Android. Unless you plan to develop applications for Android in Java (or any other platform, that is limited to use a virtual machine which isn't licensed by Oracle), you don't have to worry at all.

And even if, I don't see any risk, that Dalvik will be removed from all handhelds as a result from this fight.