Van Riper wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:18 PM, jharby <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The agreement to join the JCP really >> gives a good deal of power to Sun - >> http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/JSPA2.pdf >> > > I'm not disagreeing with assessment that Sun has more than its fair > share of influence in the activities of the JCP. However, I don't see > it being due to the structure of this legal agreement. I'm no lawyer, > but, this agreement seems to me to be mainly about making clear that > contributions to the JCP must be unencumbered IP. Not really seeing > where this particular legal document gives Sun any particular power > that IBM would inherit through acquisition. Please enlighten me. > > Thanks, Van > > Sun does have veto power on just about everthing and try to get an unbundled version of the JDK from Oracle, IBM and others. Point is, you can't. This may not be in this particular document but this document doesn't cover all the details. Right now one has to agree with Apache, Sun isn't following their own rules.
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