> The GNU Classpath website
> http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/faq/faq.html

> is full of violations of the published guidelines for use of Sun
> trademarks:

> http://www.sun.com/policies/trademarks/.

> The trademarks should never be used as nouns or in possessives, but GNU
> Classpath's web site does that all over the place.

That's OK.  It's Sun's responsibility to actively complain about such
violations in order to protect its trademark, or else risk losing it.

> The GNU Classpath project takes great care in establishing that
> developers are clean with respect to not having read the
> implementation's source code--but should developers also be clean from
> having read the API specification?  The API's license file specifically
> says that nothing other than internal usage of the specification is
> allowed except for complete implementations that pass the required
> conformance tests.

The license can't be saying that.  Otherwise it would mean you can't use the
API for the purpose of writing application code ;-P.


        Stefan
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