Questions tagged [java]
For questions about or relating to the Java language, platform or virtual machine. See the JVM (Java Virtual Machine).
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Question about external libraries license
I've a doubt about licenses of the java external libraries(jar files) which I'm planning to use in my personal commercial java swing application.Those libraries are jSerialComm and Apache POI.
I'm ...
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Jaspersoft Report Library and Jaspersoft Studio community edition for commercial use
I'm integrating third-party libraries such as Jaspersoft Report Library 7.0 and Jaspersoft Studio 7.0.0 into a Java application to generate reports for a client application. The workflow involves ...
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Netbeans Apache Autogenerated Code - Commercial Use
I used the design palette in Apache Netbeans to design a gui application. I have modified much of the code to suit my needs but some remains pure copy and paste. Am I allowed to use the autogenerated ...
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How Do I Publish My Java Application On Physical Media? [closed]
I have written an application in Java and my goal is to distribute my software on a disc to be sold. I understand that this is a very complex process and am willing to take it on. Any advice or ...
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Inter-compatibility of licenses
I would like to sell a Java desktop application of mine to more schools after having success with one single school. Seems like it wouldn't have been a problem, if I haven't mixed different licenses ...
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Proper way to include Copyright information relating to a single Class file
I'm working on a commercial Java product that is distributed as a .war file.
I want to add the source code of a class I found in a book to our code base. The book gives no license information for the ...
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LGPL 3 and Java package renaming
In my company, we have a library that makes use of a 3rd party library with an LGPL3 license.
Although our library does not extend or modify any of the 3rd party library's code, it provides some ...
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Is it legitimate to extract data from Java VM Specification document?
I'm planning to write a bytecode viewer for Java 17 classfile,
and distribute my work under some permissive license.
In order to keep consistent my implemenation,
I'd like to link my code to
Chapter 4
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Is it legitimate to include Java VM Specification document in my derived work?
I'm planning to make a bytecode viewer for Java 17 classfiles,
and distribute my work under some permissive license.
For convenience of implemenation, I'd like to include
JVMS Chapter 4. The class ...
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Can I write closed-source software that makes API calls to AGPL software?
I am writing a closed-source Java Card applet. But as a part of the functionality, I call a static RIPEMD160 method licenced under AGPL. The static method can be compiled separately and loaded onto ...
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Java Application for comercial use
I wrote an application in Java. I have a JavaSE-1.8 (jre) execution environment in my project. Do I need any license to distribute the application for commercial purposes? Or does the client need any ...
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MySQL Connector/J License
I have a question about MySQL Connector/j License. This is released under version 2 of the GNU General Public License (GPLv2). However, I do not fully understand this. If I program a thing, like in my ...
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JDK Documentation Examples Licence
What is the license for code examples in the JDK's documentation?
For example: The code examples present in this javadoc.
Additionally, in general do code examples embedded in documentation always ...
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Find a library license markdown_to_asciidoc?
In my enterprise project I use as a transitive dependency
io.github.swagger2markup:markup-document-builder:1.1.2 which has an Apache-2.0 License.
But the problem is one of its transitive dependencies
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Impact of GraalVM native images compilation on LGPL-licensed libraries
As far as I have understood, LGPL-licensed libraries must either be linked dynamically or there must be a mechanism to swap them out of the resulting work. See section 4d of the LGPL license.
Now in ...
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