Re: OpenJDK draft trademark license
> Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:59:24 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Walter Landry <wlandry@caltech.edu>
> ... My main concern is that section (1) seems to only allow
> portability fixes, and only for efforts that are an "approved project
> hosted in the OpenJDK Community". Does that mean that Debian can not
> independently issue new releases which fix security issues? While
> Debian will strive to work with the OpenJDK community to resolve these
> issues, Debian can not rely upon upstream to fix these bugs for them.
> That was the main source of contention behind the firefox/iceweasel
> dispute.
It's definitely not Sun's intent here to forbid downstreams from doing
their own security fixes. Most (all?) security fixes tend to be small
in terms of lines of code affected, and the "vast majority" phrasing
does allow a complementary "tiny minority" of code to be different for
unspecified reasons, so I think they're already allowed by the current
language.
This is the sort of thing that we already plan to clarify in a FAQ
document that will eventually accompany this notice.
If you think that security fixes should be explicitly allowed in this
notice, however, then I'll take that back to Sun's trademark counsel
for consideration.
> Otherwise, I do not see any issues with this trademark license.
Thanks for your comment.
- Mark
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