There had already been a discussion that said clean rooms
were
only useful if you already had a license for the API
Has there
been any confirmation that Sun actually believed
such a thing to
exist?
The license Danger negotiated that had to be tailored to
specifically
remove rights to source code (they requested this as they
has
cleanroom implementation), was apparently about the Java
trademark
IIRC.
I'm pretty sure that an API license is a meaningless concept
and
only recently emerged in the fevered minds of the Oracle
lawyers.
I
wonder if it would be fruitful for them to be asked to
produce documents for
this "API license" (with full
provenance), and details of which companies have
signed it
(as opposed to a trademark and/or source license)
I would
guess that the list of companies using that license
(if it even exists) would
have precisely zero items on it.
Especially since the concept is
meaningless.
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