[y4mi]

licenses such as LPIC and its windows equivalents hold a surprising significance in (dev-)ops. and the java certificate is often a requirement from what i've seen on my job hunts.

i admit that i can't say anything beyond this though.

[WalterBright]

Those are not licenses, as in they are not required by law for anything. I wrote a commercial Java compiler a while back for Symantec, and no permits nor license nor review whatsoever was required by the government to do it.

As for running my own software business, my only involvement with the government is registering the business and paying the taxes.