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| Authored by: Ian Al on Sunday, April 22 2012 @ 08:14 AM EDT |
Not certain what you mean here, but the TCK license is most
definitely incompatible with the GPL
The TCK is not GPL. If you
want to run it on anything, you must apply to your Oracle salesperson to get it
supplied and for permission to use it. There is no need for the TCK or its
licence to be compatible with the GPL. Nothing about the TCK conflicts with the
publishing of OpenJDK under the GPL licence.
OPENJDK
COMMUNITY TCK LICENSE AGREEMENT V 1.1
1.0 DEFINITIONS
1.1
“Compatible Licensee Implementation” means a Licensee Implementation that (i)
fully implements the Java Specification, including all its required interfaces
and functionality; (ii) does not modify, subset, superset or otherwise extend
the Licensor Name Space, or include any public or protected packages, classes,
Java interfaces, fields, methods or constructors within the Licensor Name Space
other than those required/authorized by the Specification or Specifications
being implemented; and (iii) passes the TCK (including satisfying the
requirements of the applicable TCK Users Guide) for such
Specification.
2.0 LICENSE GRANTS
2.1 License Grant for the
TCK. (a) Limited Grant. Subject to and conditioned upon its Licensee
Implementation being substantially derived from OpenJDK Code and, if such
Implementation has or is to be distributed to a third party, its being
distributed under the GPL License, Oracle hereby grants to Licensee, to the
extent of Oracle's Intellectual Property Rights in the TCK, a worldwide,
personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited license to use the TCK
internally and solely for the purpose of developing and testing Licensee
Implementation. No license is granted for any other purpose, including any of
the activities described in Section 2.1(b).
The licence for the
use and benefits of running TCK are given above. You are forbidden to use it on
any GPL use of OpenJDK that is not 'substantially derived from OpenJDK
Code'.
In other words, to distribute your GPL Java thing and call it
Java, it must implement the whole Java API Specification, be substantially
derived from OpenJDK Code and have Oracle's provision and permission for the use
of of the, none GPL, TCK. Then it must pass the TCK without error.
If
you do not meet all of these licence demands, you are infringing on the
copyright of the Sequence, Structure and Organization of the Java API
Specification. The Java API Specification is not released under an open and free
licence. You cannot use it in the way that you might use GPL software.
An example of this infringement would be only using 37 API packages, adding
your own and making your own VM platform.---
Regards
Ian Al
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