> I would agree in general, but IIRC Sun is not happy about JSR's being > copied to other platforms. In particular, I heard that a JDO vendor who > ported their project to .Net was threatened with a lawsuit and had to > withdraw. I would recommend that you check the legalities of it before > doing too much work.
interesting aspect. i think we should certainly look into that. i think since sun as the spec-lead of jdo is the owner of the intellectual property of the jdo spec they are in a position to do that. i can assure you that we as the spec-lead of jsr-170 have no intention to sue anybody who ports jsr-170 to a different language, as a matter of fact we are encouraging it ;) additionally, since we license the jsr-170 under the apache license some of the licensing terms should already be taken care of... right? of course i am not a lawyer so i may be completely wrong here... maybe some of the more licensing savvy people can help us here. regards, david .ps: if someone would like to contribute a .NET port of jsr-170... of course subject to the concerns that rickard raised.
