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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 23 2012 @ 09:52 AM EDT |
You quoted the following:
"The IcedTea project is not subject to the same licensing
issues as Apache Harmony, as Sun has provided a special
version of the TCK license that is targeted to any Java
implementation that is a derivative of OpenJDK; something
that Apache Harmony cannot claim."
... Google use Apache Harmony and therefore cannot claim this
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| Authored by: hardmath on Monday, April 23 2012 @ 11:39 AM EDT |
It's not entirely FUD since you cannot create derivative
works from the TCK targeting OpenJDK.
Note that GNU Classpath has its own test suite, Mauve.
There's no reason the test suite and the implementation have
to be released under the same license, but Sun/Oracle did
not release the TCK under any form of open source license.
Of course they have a write not to do so, as they have a
write to control terms of licensing their trademark and
patents under conditions hinging on continued TCK
compliance.
But I don't think it's FUD to point out these ongoing
restrictions for OpenJDK forks.
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