Re: JCP, JSR, RI, TCK, etc

[Ola Lundqvist <opal@debian.org>]

Hi

On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 01:47:04AM +0100, Ahmed wrote:
> It seems that Sun is willing to modify its licencing scheme.

Maybe, at least for the java spec part.

> http://java.sun.com/features/2002/10/new_jcp.html
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> I did not understand it in full. I have to read it multiple times. 
> It is like a lawyer wrote it.

Well frankly I do not understand it fully either. What I understand
is that they have split JSRs and RIs. This means that you are free
to implement Java Specification Requests (JSR) under open source. It does
NOT seem to have anything to do with their Reference Implementation
(RI). Am I correct?

Regards,

// Ola

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