On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 09:11:10AM +0100, Joe Gittings wrote:
> >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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The problem may be in the widely accepted notion that an open source program
is freely open to unrestricted derivation of the source code. How does that play
with Sun?
c,
Karen
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