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Re: What are tainted developers allowed to work on?


From: Dalibor Topic
Subject: Re: What are tainted developers allowed to work on?
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 18:57:35 +0100
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Nic Ferrier wrote:
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?

It would be a pretty interesting 'All Your Code Are Belong To Us' claim. As interesting 'IP' claims go, I guess that would have to be decided by courts, if it ever materializes.

But then, I'm not a lawyer, and some lawyers can sometimes have a very fascinating view on copyright law, US constitution and all that, as SCO's team of top legal counsel successfully demonstrates almost every week in court.

cheers,
dalibor topic




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