Now, the basis for my opinion that the DMCA is a barrier is that (1) I think it's a barrier, (2) several people who are not coders but still produce other forms of content say it's a barrier, (3) I can think of one other potential developer (like me) who also won't sign the JCA and (4) based on public forums, news sources, etc etc, there seems to be a deep mistrust of Sun.
What risks do you see with respect to the JCA? What "evil" things do you imagine that Sun could do based on the JCA?
Because Ximian was mentioned earlier as requesting JCA for Evolution, it should also be mentioned that people complain for its own JCA and ask *at least* the JCA to be addressed to Gnome Foundation instead (if not dropped at all) - see discussion before Evolution was accepted in Gnome Desktop 2.8.
Why JCA is considered evil? It is considered a backdoor permitting the receiver of JCA (being it Sun, Novell or somebody else) to circumvent GPL and to close the source of the project.
The scenario can go like that:
1. the company who has received JCA is copyright owner for the entire source code, so it can release it under a new, closed, license.
2. the Open Source project is forced to close using software patents.
In the Sun case the fear is aggravated by the attack of Sun executives against Linux and Linux distributions and also by the perceived Sun financial problems (big layoffs for example).
-- nicu my OpenOffice.org pages: http://ooo.nicubunu.ro
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