Bernd Kreimeier wrote:
> Mark Wielaard wrote:
> > When you have not agreed to a license/contract the publisher can not
> > force you to do or don't do anything with the information. You can
> > use the ideas for everything you want as long as you don't violate
> > the copyright by directly copying large portions and distributing them
> > to others.
>
> Sun is taking the stance that copyright on specifications prohibits
> implementation of these specifications w/o a license. In their view,
> they own the specification/API/function names and signatures
In an open letter to the Java community (
http://www.ibm.com/developer/features/ibm_commitment.html ), Rod Smith,
Vice President of Java Software at IBM stated (re: J2EE licensing
restrictions):
> Still concerned? Let me tell you some things that should ease your mind: IBM
>contributed to the definition of
> more than 80 percent of the API specifications in Sun's J2EE, including
>Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB),
> JavaServer Pages (JSP), Java Servlet, Java Interface Definition Language
>(IDL), Java Database Connectivity
> API (JDBC), Java Message Service (JMS), Java Naming and Directory Interface
>(JNDI), Java Transaction API
> (JTA), Java Transaction Services (JTS), and RMI-IIOP. We're going to carry
>on supporting this stuff -- we
> helped develop it, and our customers and the developer community demand it.
>It's just the right thing to do.
>
Might this offer an opportunity to work around this goofey licensing of
specifications nonsense (a very Microsoftish move, IMO).
Askin' cause I don't know,
Ian
