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| Authored by: jbb on Saturday, April 21 2012 @ 06:56 AM EDT |
| I think Ian Al may have mentioned this before. How can anyone go through the
process of creating an implementation of Java that might eventually pass the TCK
without horrendously violating Oracle's API copyrights? AFAIK there is only the
internal evaluation license and the full fledged license after you pass the TCK.
How could you possibly re-implement the Java APIs without first going through a
very long phase of working with a re-implementation that does not yet pass the
TCK?
Does the evaluation license cover this? If these circumstances are
not specifically allowed in one of their licenses then it is proof that even
Sun/Oracle believed that APIs are not protected by copyright when they made them
public. ISTM that once you have released something as unprotected by copyright
you cannot go back and claim it is now protected, especially if someone else
has invested millions of dollars starting with what you released to the public.
If Oracle's API claims are valid then then entire JSPA process was a sham
requiring participant to flagrantly violate Sun/Oracle's API copyrights before
they can get a license from Sun/Oracle to legally use those APIs.
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