This makes very good sense.
On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Cees de Groot wrote:
> Oliver Fels wrote:
>
> > Just for your interest and in case noone has mentioned it yet:
> >
> > Sun is now making the source code to the JavaŽ 2 platform
> > available to the developer community.
> >
>
> 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 like to read the acronym SCSL as "Sun Community" source license, not as Sun
> "Community Source License". They define the community, you see.
>
> I've been so stupid to sign into the source license for 1.0.2, so I've signed
> it for 1.1 and now 1.2 as well. But I'd rather cooperate on an alternative to
> the JDK. I can't, because I'm tainted - if I were to submit a single patch to
> one of the alternatives, or even to TYA, they wouldn't be clean room efforts
> anymore.
>
> You can see the openness involved with the SCSL: if they were serious about
> openness, they'd have lifted the restrictions for the Blackdown porting team by
> now. Methinks that with the JCK tests, Blackdown is at the debugging stage and
> that can be perfectly paralellized - hundreds of people on the list would
> gladly jump in. That they haven't done so, shows that Sun, as a corporation, is
> not really committed to a Linux JDK or to openness.
>
> This is their good right, just as it is our right to make sure that there'll be
> a non-Sun alternative JVM+classlib. I'd rather have people excercise that right
> then bind into the Sun Community.
>
>
>
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