Cees de Groot wrote:
> Yes, but *please* think twice before committing your soul to Sun!
>
> I hope it is clear that the second you agree to their license, you can forget
> about contributing to Japhar, Classpath, Kaffe, etcetera - the real Open Source
> alternatives to Sun's JDK. If your company agrees to the license, I guess
> you're tainted as well - a Bad Thing if you want to contribute to a free
> JVM/class library.
I don't think that signing electronic license would stand in any court.
With old licensing scheme, you had to sign it on paper and fax/mail it -
and this oligate you to something, but anybody can click license for me
- these passwords aren't very secure, are they ?
So I think that with new license it is similar to looking at src.zip and
helping classpath - you should not do it, but as long as you will not
copy and paste code, nobody will have a chance to sue you.
TYA for example was developed by looking very hard at include files from
JDK. You can really discover a lot by just checking these files.
Artur
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