Hi, I had posted this to the JUG-Chennai list too and thought this might be interesting discussion in this list too as there are quite a few people with knowledge of licensing here. Any comments, suggestions or work arounds please?
Sun/Oracle does not allow you to package the FX runtime along with your desktop application. Web start will download it from http://dl.javafx-rt.com/ automatically. I am intending to make a desktop application with JavaFX and it will be distributed in a CD/DVD to thousands of subscribers. In todays' broadband era, it is not too difficult nor the end users are going to complain much. But... What if Oracle decides to pull the plug on JavaFX and brings down the dl.javafx-rt.com/ site?? I cannot distribute my applications anymore! This is unacceptable and seems stupid and selfish by Sun/Oracle. How do they expect developers to use JavaFX with such restrictions? My existing JavaFX projects were custom developed for a TV channel and we gave the entire setup as a service and hence never thought about the licensing issues. Now that I have to develop a mass distributed product, I have a gut feeling I invested time and effort in the wrong technology... :( Regards, Arun _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
