Always review Oracle license changes closely. At Atlassian in 2008, I noticed that they had acquired a company called Coherence which made a distributed cache

Always review Oracle license changes closely. At Atlassian in 2008, I noticed that they had acquired a company called Coherence which made a distributed cache for the JVM. Confluence used it heavily for its clustered edition, but the original license allowed us to distribute (in inactive form) for free but pay the license fee only when we sold clustered. Hidden in the license agreement, it said we’d have to pay for every copy _downloaded_ - the implication was this would include 100% of trials downloaded AND any customer who built confluence from source (all paying customers had source code access). Fast forward - a mad month where we ripped that shit out for about 6 to 8 supported back versions.