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This is the core piece of crucial information in all this, and I haven't found it anywhere else. We have Java installed. As far as I know, we never told the in
by ptx 8y ago
This is the core piece of crucial information in all this, and I haven't found it anywhere else.
We have Java installed. As far as I know, we never told the installer if our use was planned to be commercial or personal. But in a few days, personal-use-installations will get a free update and commercial-use-installations will...
A) not get updates, through the updater using heuristics and mind-reading to divine that the installation is not personal?
B) get the update and thus be expensively out of compliance with the license?
C) have the updater present the problem to the end user and expect them to carefully consider the legal situation?
I think many people have assumed that the answer is B and are currently busy uninstalling Java everywhere, but if I understand you right the answer is actually C?
Is there more information on this anywhere? Most importantly, what is the correct official way to tell the updater ahead of time to keep the old version and never update? (We have a legacy application that uses applets.)
- hoseja 8y agoThe answer is C. I got prompted with a Java update and just went ahead with it, without much consideration; I mean, it's just a Java update, I don't even use Java for anything on this machine but w/e. This morning I got a panicked email from our IT, sent to a significant portion of the company about the fact that we now run a commercially-licensed version. There is no longer a parasitic Java installation on my computer.