approve
I took a closer look at the agreement. My interpretation is that, it only places
restriction on the blackdown porting team which cannot make any money off the
Java 3D port. It places no such restriction on the developer who should be free
to deploy their application for commercial purposes. So, it is non-commercial
from the perspective of blackdown. I have left a voice-mail for the lawyer. If I
hear anything different from what I just stated, I will send a clarification to
the alias.
/Subra
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> It's in this URL
> http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,33261,00.html
>
> To be exact ...
>
> +=======================================================================
>
> LINUXWORLD, SAN JOSE, Calif., March 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Sun Microsystems,
> Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW -
> news) today announced that it has licensed its leading Java (TM) Media
> technologies to the Linux Blackdown
> Porting Team, an informal group of Linux developers. The licensing
> agreement delivers the inherent strengths of the
> Java programming environment to Linux users and includes the following
> Sun (TM) application programming
> interfaces (APIs): Java 3D (TM) API, Java Media Framework API, Java
> Advanced Imaging API and Java Sound
> API. This agreement enables the Linux community to develop and
> distribute media-enhanced applications for the
> Java 2 platform for non-commercial use. For the first time, Linux
> developers will be able to create
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> ||||||||||||||||||
>
> platform-independent, network-centric applications for educational,
> business and technical users with the
> easy-to-use Java Media APIs.
>
> +========================================================================
>
> I'm hoping they are talking about the source code and not the binaries.
> In windows I think you can distribute the jre+java3d runtimes for a
> product, free of charge, which is what it kind of says in the
> java3d-license.html page.
>
> Could somebody clarify this ? I hope Sun is not planning on charging
> developers royalties whenever we use certain "standard" java apis ?!?!
>
> -Augusto
>
>
> David Harvill wrote:
> >
> > I didn't find this statement at the URL you provided.
> >
> > -dave
> >
> > On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Ron Yorston wrote:
> >
> > > >From the Sun announcement:
> > >
> > > >This agreement enables the Linux community to develop and distribute
> > > >media-enhanced applications for the Java 2 platform for non-commercial
use.
> > >
> > > Why the limitation to non-commercial use? Maybe I don't understand the
> > > terms, but the licence on the Sun site for other platforms doesn't seem
> > > to have any such restriction.
> > >
> > > (http://www.javasoft.com/products/java-media/3D/java3d-license.html)
> > >
> > > Ron
> > >
> > >
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> Augusto Sellhorn
> GE Harris Energy Control Systems
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