[Info] Jini goes OSS.

2005-01-20 Thread Niclas Hedhman
FWIW, Sun have decided to put the Jini specification, documentation and reference implementations under an OSS license. Early on, the discussion of which licensed circled around; BSD, MIT and ALv2. After a lengthy debate on the pros and cons, especially in respect of the patent rights

Re: [Info] Jini goes OSS.

2005-01-20 Thread Henri Yandell
All sounds great but the open sourcing of the spec confuses me. How exactly is that going to work? Has anyone open-sourced a spec before? Will the official version of the Jini spec remain within the JCP? Hen On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Niclas Hedhman wrote: FWIW, Sun have decided to put the Jini

Re: [Info] Jini goes OSS.

2005-01-20 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Thursday 20 January 2005 05:13, Henri Yandell wrote: All sounds great but the open sourcing of the spec confuses me. How exactly is that going to work? Has anyone open-sourced a spec before? AFAIU, that is a reference to the fact that the specification contains classes, that have previously