On Wed, 20 Mar 2013, David Boyes wrote:
There oughtta be an international "Java Proliferation Treaty".
Or a plain REXX port (not Object REXX) that used the JVM
standard pseudomachine.
The problem with any port effort is that the certification
test kit to which one needs to conform to be able to call the
result a Java', is /was non FOSS
http://openjdk.java.net/groups/conformance/docs/JCK6bUsersGuide/html/p4.htm
which indicates even as to the specification:
This document is licensed under a Creative
Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0
Unported License
and the IP ownership rights holder was not afraid to use its
tools in litigation
http://www.groklaw.net/pdf2/OraclevGoogle-ApacheSubpoena.pdf
as to third-parties -0- here the Apache Software Foundation
No big deal for companies with legal staffs to thread the
needle, but a non-commercial effort to do such is really a
non-starter
I worked on the issue on the LSB side (a community based
approach):
http://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/lsb-discuss/2008-August/005410.html
and the last word on this is probably:
http://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/lsb-discuss/2010-October/006558.html
A current trailhead seems to be:
http://openjdk.java.net/legal/
for people wishing to bang their head against a wall
-- Russ herrold
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