Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
Java items require a contract and permission to ship from each of the vendors (IBM, BEA, Sun). Part of this comes from the overlying Sun contract that IBM/BEA have with Sun to use the Java trademark, and some come from usual business practices. With the application itself licensing is also involved, but that seems to be limited in some ways. Blech... every time I have had to deal with this in the past... the lawyers have to work it out first.
Considering we dont have any lawyers, what would the next step be ?