Re: What are tainted developers allowed to work on?

[Nic Ferrier]

>> In the meantime I did manage to elicit this statement from a Sun engineer,
>> while talking about something other than JCK:
>> 
>>         "Regarding independant VM's, people are free to use the Java
>> Specifications for R&D non-commercial use but as soon as they make use
>> of the code for commercial use then they have to take a license from
>> Sun.  The so called "CleanRoom" implementations of VM's are in fact not
>> clean as they are based on the Java Specification which is Sun's IP.
>> Therefore before making use of this commercially they should license
>> from Sun the test suites to ensure compliance."

Can they actually make that stick? Surely the specification, if
published, is open?

I don't remember having to sign anything to see the Java platform
specification.  But maybe there is a different Java platform
specification that I haven't seen?

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Nic Ferrier
http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk