On 10/5/10 22:22 , amiro wrote:
I'm interested to understand the legal possibilities of such a fork,
or even to understand what alternatives Oracle could themselves devise
to 'freshen up' the JCP.
I think that nobody will know for sure until the Google vs Oracle suite
ends. We can guess, anyway, that a fork derived from OpenJDK is
relatively safe (as IcedTea pointed by robogeek); from Harmony currently
it wouldn't for sure. If Oracle loses, everything would be safe.
I think we're missing another point, that the past year stormed a bit,
but we've got short term memory: the MySQL thing. It turned out that,
being GPL, it can be forked, but only the owner, Oracle, would be
allowed to offer an alternate license. It was the Stallman's argument
and AFAIU the main reason for which the EU stalled the acquisition
process. Given that much of the business with corporates is alternate
licensing (for indemnification and so on), I infer that nobody could
fork Java and be able to offer it under another license (obvious fact,
after all), thus offering indemnification support. For most industrial
purposes, this would be a showstopper (but of course guys only think of
the "community"). Another reason for which I'm skeptical about the fork.
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