>> In the meantime I did manage to elicit this statement from a Sun engineer, >> while talking about something other than JCK: >> >> "Regarding independant VM's, people are free to use the Java >> Specifications for R&D non-commercial use but as soon as they make use >> of the code for commercial use then they have to take a license from >> Sun. The so called "CleanRoom" implementations of VM's are in fact not >> clean as they are based on the Java Specification which is Sun's IP. >> Therefore before making use of this commercially they should license >> from Sun the test suites to ensure compliance."
Can they actually make that stick? Surely the specification, if published, is open? I don't remember having to sign anything to see the Java platform specification. But maybe there is a different Java platform specification that I haven't seen? -- Nic Ferrier http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
