Bernd Kreimeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sun is taking the stance that copyright on specifications prohibits
> implementation of these specifications w/o a license.
Sun does indeed take this bogus stance. We choose to ignore it.
Sun interprets copyright law far too broadly.
> To my understanding, this is the basis of Sun's lawsuit against MS.
Sun's lawsuit was based on Microsoft allegedly going outside of their
license grant from Sun. Microsoft later asked permission to be able
to write a clean-room implementation of Java that would not be subject
to the prior licensing terms of Sun's source code. The judge ruled in
favor of Microsoft on that issue.
