Is GCJ/Classpath headed for patent trouble?

Ranjit Mathew rmathew@gmail.com
Thu Jun 17 06:16:00 GMT 2004


John Gabriele wrote:
> I just had a look at Sun's Java copyright doc
> http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/second_edition/html/ 
> jcopyright.doc.html
> which includes this:

I think that this is applicable only for claiming
conformance to the specification.

In any case, it is a sad and perverted world where
language specifications come with a copyright notice
and a "limited license". :-(

Ranjit.

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