On Mar 27, 11:31 pm, Neal Gafter <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 27, 6:17 am, JodaStephen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > "2006.10.24 - 7. Nothing in the licensing terms will prevent open > > source projects from creating and distributing their own compatible > > open source implementations of Java SE 6, using standard open source > > licenses. (Yes, you can create your own open source implementation of > > Java SE 6 if you really want to. But we're also doing everything we > > can to make it easy for you to use the original RI sources! > > Seehttp://jdk6.dev.java.net.) "http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=270 > > It isn't the licensing terms preventing Harmony from producing a > compatible implementation; if Harmony gets a license, they are free to > do so. It is Harmony's finances that make them unable to pay the > necessary fee to become a licensee.
Nope. Apache is a "Qualified Not For Profit" as described in the JSPA legal agreement (section 1.18). They are fully entitled to obtain the testing kit for $free, and the offer Sun did make was for $free. The problem is with the additional "Field of use" terms added to the testing kit license that infect the tested code and make it not open source. See the explanation in pictures - http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/entry/sun_apache_ip_in_pictures - for how this was achieved. BTW, Apache successfully implement 25 other JSRs, with $free access to the testing kits. Why is this JSR so special? Stephen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
