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The commercial license is only needed if you intend to link against it in a commercial project (they specifically exempt using bindings for a dynamic language f
by strlen 16y ago
The commercial license is only needed if you intend to link against it in a commercial project (they specifically exempt using bindings for a dynamic language from "linking") or buy support. Otherwise, it's free for use in open source (it's compatible with both ASL and GPL) or internal projects.
- btilly 16y agoBy my memory (I googled for it and can't find it) the dynamic language exemption was because in their opinion using their API from a dynamic language was not really linking, and hence didn't need copyright permission. But the license doesn't say anything at all about that. Now that the people who interpreted the license don't have control, and Oracle's lawyers do, I would not be entirely confident that the past interpretation of the license will necessarily be the future interpretation. The fact that I can't easily find anything documenting the old interpretation on Oracle's site does not give me comfort on this score.