IBM Jikes license
Eric said you were curious about the IBM Jikes license.
Reports that Eric "blessed" the license are not accurate. I did "bless" an
early draft, about 5 drafts ago. I am still looking at the current
(released) version and will discuss it with the OSD board, and then we will
make an official statement.
The 60% thing will catch your eye. Note that that part is the _patent_
license, not the software copyright license. Neither the DFSG nor the
OSD currently say anything about patent licensing - I consider IBM's
license an improvement over the usual case, which is no patent license
at all. FYI, IBM claims there isn't any IBM-patentable technology currently
in Jikes.
Sengan, myself, and a few others have been working on this for months.
There are some people at IBM who are really into making _more_ software
Open Source. Please be nice to them.
Thanks
Bruce
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"surplus".
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