Hi all, On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 00:45, Mark Wielaard wrote: > Please give me a couple of days to contact the right people. And to make > sure we formulate our questions and concerns coherently. I want to avoid > an ESR style letter which I think is not helpful. Hopefully we can start > a dialog that helps both the people that care about the Free Software > movement and people that care about standardization of jave-like > platforms. I'll make sure to contact Onno with some specific issues in > the next two weeks
Tom Tromey already made some excellent points in a comment on that javalobby article: http://www.javalobby.org/thread.jspa?messageID=91790015&threadID=11559&forumID=61 The one thing that I want to add is that it would be nice to have a formal statement from Sun that they will not sue a project for studying their code and implementing something compatible. (This is the biggest complaint we get from people that want to help us, but that we currently turn down because we want to have a really clear clean-room policy.) The reason I said it would take some time (even though we do know pretty well what we want to ask clarification on) is that I want to run the request/letter through FSF legal and point to specific JCP agreements/clauses and/or click-through licenses that people have to accept. That way we will hopefully get a much more specific reply. I did already discuss JCP issues with RMS and some other people a few weeks ago so we can hopefully come up with some really specific questions pretty quickly. Besides that I need some sleep now and won't have any classpath time tomorrow. But I'll make sure to start the real discussion on Thursday when I will have time to more coherently formulate our concerns. Please let me know of any specifics that you think are important/relevant for this discussion with Sun. Cheers, Mark
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