JodaStephen wrote: > 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? > Because not having that FOU clause would mean someone could take a stripped-down version of J2SE and use it in areas where J2ME resides nowadays.
Not that I agree with that approach, but I think the reason for all this is not the Harmony project by itself, but Sun trying to defend their business model on the ME side. Peter --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
