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I am currently in the process of writing some software in Java that I may one day decide to sell online. I am using the Java SE library. Do I have to pay any licensing feels to Oracle if I plan to sell this, because with the recent news of Oracle suing Google I am concerned for the future of this platform.
Thanks,
You are free to sell Java software without any licensing issues. The Oracle/Google lawsuit is specifically about Google’s alleged breaches of several Oracle patents, which are all to do with JVM implementation details. If you’re writing software to run ON the JVM, you don’t have an issue. For more info on the lawsuit, see the lengthy blogpost by Charles Nutter.
Obviously, though, IANAL.