On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 12:10 +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote: > While looking at the trademark license I was surprised to find version > 1.1 at http://openjdk.java.net/legal/openjdk-trademark-notice.html and > in the actual code repositories. A long time ago there was a proposal > for a version 1.2 of the trademark license that would allow IcedTea to > present itself as OpenJDK under some circumstances (swapping out > hotspot for a newer version, backporting stuff from 7 to 6, etc. but > not when swapping out hotspot for cacao for example). It seems this > upgrade never actually happened, but IcedTea does now present itself > as if it is called OpenJDK in certain cases that don't seem allowed by > the 1.1 version. Oops... The 1.2 variant/discussion can be found at > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2008-March/000687.html
Sorry for digging up this old topic. But it would be nice to get this cleaned up. Especially since the 1.1 version seems to only mention jdk6 and people are shipping jdk7 variants now.
