Minor corrections, you can legally 

a) share source with other SCSL licensees for free, for example if
you wanted to work in a porting team or use it for your research project.

b) you can ship a binary if it passes the TCK test, there are
no royalties but the test itself is not free. 

regards
calvin

>At 18:11 10/30/00 -0800, noisebrain wrote:
>>This (the license) does not negate the fact that the source is available
>>and can be changed.
>
>actually it does. What can you (legally) do with that changed source?
>Nothing. Can you give it to me in binary form? no. Can you give it to me
>in source form? no. Can you give it to me in a diff. No. It might as well
>be the old AT&T unix license. Yeah it's still better than say Windows,
>but it isn't GNU/Linux, it isn't xfree86, it isn't apache, it isn't perl,
>it isn't Open Source; but the more people who will buy into Sun's diluted
>concept the more they and the popular press will forget the real meaning.
>Please don't feed their delusions.
>
>
>
>
>now the forces of openness
>     have a powerful and
>     unexpected new ally
>    http://ibm.com/linux/
>
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