jphamlore writes: > 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: ...
I see nothing on that site violates trademark law. > The trademarks should never be used as nouns or in possessives, but GNU > Classpath's web site does that all over the place. Sun's suggestions are not law and a trademark is not a copyright. Sun does not own the word Java (or the word Sun, for that matter). > 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? They don't need to be. Copyright does not protect the API: only Sun's specific expression of it. > 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. So? They are using it internally to develop their implementation. They are not distributing the document or any derivative of it. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
