Re: Java Researchg License

[Dalibor Topic <robilad@kaffe.org>]

Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote:
> Is this free software licence according to DFSG?:
>
> http://java.net/jrl.csp

It's not DFSG free because it forbids commercial use, among other things.

What someone at Sun's legal seems to have done was to repackage the 
SCSL's research license provisions under a new name, cut off the rest, 
and to tweak a few things to make them look less embarassing.

I guess the SCSL has been debunked a few times too often recently, so 
Sun's marketing division needs a new tool to brand Java as 
'open-standard-source'.

> http://www.javalobby.org/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=15416&tstart=0

The submitter is seriously misinfomed about what the license text 
actually says.

In short: the JRL is a poison pill. Don't touch unless you have to.

cheers,
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