Re: Discussion - non-free software removal
On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 14:02, Stephen Zander wrote:
> >>>>> "Pankaj" == Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@ncst.ernet.in> writes:
> Pankaj> Once upon a time I installed tomcat without j2sdk
> Pankaj> i.e. using jikes. So I think he is blindly claiming
> Pankaj> without try out any thing. As a developer I didn't ever
> Pankaj> need any non-free software in last two year.
>
> Have you read the SCL and other licences which cover Java2? They
> explicitly cover all Java2 standard classes etc and have provision
> that, IIRC, carry over into *any* implementation of those classes.
I don't see how they can prevent a clean-room competing implementation
without software patents. A license on their code does nothing to other
implementations.
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