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Why the CLASSPATH exception is quite relevant to source code | 503 comments | Create New Account
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Why the CLASSPATH exception is quite relevant to source code
Authored by: Ian Al on Monday, April 23 2012 @ 05:18 AM EDT
You need to read my comment with some care. I did not say anything about the
licence conditions for the OpenJDK. I quoted the OpenJDK Community License for
the TCK. The OpenJDK code is released under the GPL. The GPL only covers the
licensing of program code. It does not licence the documentation within the
code. The text in the OpenJDK infringes on the Java API Specification because it
copies the SSO of the Specification, according to Oracle.

Oracle say that Harmony implementing the SSO of the Java API Specification
without a TCK licence is infringing on the API Specification. Oracle say only
the TCK gives one a licence to do that. However, you need to abide by the TCK
licence terms and conditions that I quoted to get the TCK licence.

The TCK licence says you can copy the SSO and reimplement the OpenJDK libraries
as long as what you do is substantially the same as the GPLed OpenJDK libraries
and it has a TCK licence. So, they are saying that you can redistribute their
GPL Java and call it Java, but without any code changes. Otherwise they will sue
you for copyright infringement of the API Specification.

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Regards
Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid!

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