Arnaud Le Hors wrote:
>
> I fully understand the rationale for all this. However, it doesn't make much
> sense to provide an override mechanism on one hand, and to prohibit using it
> through the conformance test suite on the other hand. If this is not
> changed, people will be forced to use the obvious workaround which is to
> distribute platforms that contain out of date but compliant code along with
> a separate package which people can use to override the platform code.
> No real gain, but additional complication/confusion...
I think this is covered in my reply to Miles which you may not have seen
so I'm attaching it.
-Edwin
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Miles Sabin wrote:
>
> Edwin Goei wrote,
> > I believe the "endorsed standards" mechanism is something different.
> > It was something that was added to J2SE 1.4 to allow users to use
> > newer versions of some packages like DOM. The mechanism works like
> > the -Xbootclasspath option that Miles mentioned. However, I am less
> > certain what the rules are with vendors shipping say DOM L3 by
> > default and still claim to be J2SE 1.4 compliant.
>
> Not being a J2SE vendor, I don't much care about J2SE compliance
> issues. What I do care about is the clause in the J2SE licence which
> states that any use of -Xbootclasspath to override classes in rt.jar
> negates all rights to distribute the JRE/JDK. Given that the DOM L2
> and SAX2 interfaces are in rt.jar this means that I can't use DOM L3
> or SAX2 updates and still legally ship with a VM.
>
> The "endorsed standards" mechanism you mention suggests there's an
> escape route. What is it? Where is it documented?
First let me reiterate that I am stating my own opinion. Licenses
should ask Java Partner Engineering for official answers and
non-licenses need to consult their own lawyers. However, I have heard
that the binary distribution license is in the process of being revised
to allow the kinds of things that you want to do.
-Edwin
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