>From the Notice:
"Sun hereby grants you a fully-paid, non-exclusive, non-transferable,
worldwide, limited license (without the right to sublicense), under Sun's
intellectual property rights that are essential to practice this
Specification, to internally practice this Specification solely for the
purpose of creating a clean room implementation of this Specification that:
....."
All the subsequent conditions in this paragraph are aimed at ensuring full
compliance with the spec and preventing fragmentation of the EJB standard.
I don't see which bit of this prohibits an open source EJB server. Nowhere
in the notice do they specify any restrictions on how the clean room
implementation can be redistributed.
Joe
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From: Guglielmo Lichtner [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 12:06 AM
To: Jorgen Thelin
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Subject: Re: OpenSource and EJB spec license
I hope that as long as one removes all references to the ejb spec one
should keep the software free.
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On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Jorgen Thelin wrote:
>
> FYI from the ejboss mailing list.
> - Time to consult the lawyers!
>
>
>
> Rickard Oberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >> > One thing about OpenSource and EJB: we were told in a very explicit
> >> > manner by Sun that it is today impossible to do an OpenSource
> >> > EJB-server. Apparently the EJB-license prevents this.
> >>
> >> This is new. Which part of the license says this?
> >
> >Read the "Notice" part in the EJB 1.1 spec (the very first few
> >paragraphs). It is very explicit, although I never read it myself until
> >Sun told us about it.
> >
> >/Rickard
> >
>
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