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To: paul who wrote (10706)8/1/1998 12:56:00 AM
From: Scott McPealy  Read Replies (1) of 64865
 
The gullible fools who believe Java is open will be interested to read
this from comp.lang.java.advocacy, Subject: Does this mean what I
think it does?:

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"From the Personal Java specification:

"Sun Microsystems, Inc. (SUN) hereby grants to you at no charge a
nonexclusive, nontransferable, worldwide, limited license (without the
right to sublicense) under SUN's intellectual property rights that are
essential to practice the PersonalJava 1.1 Specification
("Specification") to use the Specification for internal evaluation
purposes only. Other than this limited license, you acquire no right,
title, or interest in or to the Specification and you shall have no
right to use the Specification for productive or commercial use. "

The way I read this is that someone like Kaffe could not create a
Personal Java clone. It also shows why Sun threatened to sue HP over
their Embedded Java clone. This is the first time I've even seen a
license that prohibits cloning an API. Is this sort of thing common in
the Unix world?"

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Here is a reply tidbit from a devoted Java programmer:

"I'm honestly getting tired of Sun telling us all what is best for
Java. They are trying to make ever API under the heavens and we still
don't have an open source implementation from Sun sumbitted to a
standards body that we can all use. You must admit that with clauses
like this, as well as "core" classes using "com.sun" in their
package name there are serious doubts that are justifiable
regarding Suns open-ness of Java."

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LOL. UNIX fundamentalism strikes again!
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