At 09:11 AM 4/04/00 +0100, Joe Gittings wrote:
>From the Notice:
>
>"Sun hereby grants you a fully-paid, non-exclusive, non-transferable,
>worldwide, limited license (without the right to sublicense), under Sun's
>intellectual property rights that are essential to practice this
>Specification, to internally practice this Specification solely for the
>purpose of creating a clean room implementation of this Specification that:
>....."
>
>All the subsequent conditions in this paragraph are aimed at ensuring full
>compliance with the spec and preventing fragmentation of the EJB standard.
>
>I don't see which bit of this prohibits an open source EJB server. Nowhere
>in the notice do they specify any restrictions on how the clean room
>implementation can be redistributed.
I think the implication may be more towards the royalty that
sun expects for products developed with the enterprise edition
version of Java, which I think was 5% ... although how they'd
collect that I don't know ... 5% of what, especially since
open source is freely available software (thus no money
exchanges hands) ...
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