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Re: Discussion - non-free software removal



Colin Walters <walters@debian.org> writes:

>> 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.

It might be possible to reserve rights on the whole collection of
classes as a database. ;-)



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