Re: OpenJDK draft trademark license

[Mark Reinhold <mr@sun.com>]

> Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:31:17 +0800
> From: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>

> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
>>  I'm hoping OpenJDK will be ready for lenny, and today I noticed that
>>  Sun are calling for comments on a revised draft of their trademark
>>  license for OpenJDK:
> 
> Mark, I wasn't able to find the FAQ,

(The FAQ hasn't yet been published yet.)

>				       but I'd like it to answer this
> question; What is the goal of the OpenJDK trademark license?

Is this not clear in my request for comments [1]?  To wit:

  Over the last couple of months a group of us here at Sun has been
  working with developers at Red Hat and Canonical to integrate packages
  based on the open-source JDK 6 code [1] into the upcoming Fedora 9 [2]
  and Ubuntu Hardy Heron [3] releases.

  The names of these packages include the token "openjdk", and the
  version strings say "OpenJDK".  In Hardy Heron, for example, the
  packages share the prefix "openjdk-6", and running "java -version"
  after installing them produces the output:

      openjdk version "1.6.0"
      OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0-b06)
      OpenJDK Server VM (build 1.6.0-b06, mixed mode)

  Now "OpenJDK" is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, so we had to come up
  with a way to grant permission for these types of uses.

Or do I misunderstand your question?

- Mark


[1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2008-March/001115.html