Moses DeJong wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Jamie Marconi wrote:
> > http://www.sun.com/software/communitysource/java2
>
> What is so cool about it? Sun still restricts what you can do with the
> code. You still need to pay them if you want to use your own changes.
> You still can not give your code to anyone else without passing the
> JCK. Oh, and of course they will not give you the JCK without paying
> them. In addition, looking at the Sun will break "clean room", so
> you will not be able to work on japhar. Why would anyone agree to
> these license terms? This is a token gesture only, they have not
> "opened" anything.
While I basically agree with you that the license is restrictive, what
you're saying is not strictly true. For research purposes, non-compliant
code (i.e. code that doesn't pass the JCK) can be freely distributed.
alex
