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I am currently writing some Java software that one day I can decide to sell on the Internet. I am using the Java SE library. Do I have to pay any Oracle licenses if I plan to sell this because with the recent news that Oracle is suing Google, I am worried about the future of this platform.

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You are free to sell Java software without any licensing issues. An Oracle / Google lawsuit alleges alleged violations of several Oracle patents related to implementation details of the JVM. If you are writing software to run the JVM, you have no problem. For more information on the lawsuit, see Charles Nutter's long blog post .

Obviously, however, IANAL.

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From my recollections, it seems to me that until you send the Java virtual machine with your product (and rather tell your users how to download it from Oracle), you will not have any problems.

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If you carefully read the news, you will soon realize that the lawsuit is limited to the Dalvik googles virtual machine, which is used on Android. If you do not plan to develop Android applications in Java (or any other platform that is limited to using a virtual machine not licensed by Oracle), you need not worry.

And even if I do not see any risk that Dalvik will be removed from all handheld computers as a result of this battle.

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