Re: Java security policy file
Tom Hawtin wrote:
Lew wrote:
I thought it was literally illegal, in that it violates the trademark
on "Java".
I am not a lawyer: I don't believe the GNU Java implementation claims to
be Java(TM). I understand that Microsoft had a contract with Sun which
did impose restrictions, and that Microsoft was found in court to have
broken some of those clauses.
You were right about package-private classes being permissible, as I read the
license for the Java specification from the Sun web site,
<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/legal/license.html>
ss. 2 (b):
Sun also grants you a ... license ,,,
to create and/or distribute an Independent Implementation of the Specification
that: ...
(b) does not modify, subset, superset or otherwise extend
the Licensor Name Space, or include any public or protected packages,
classes, Java interfaces, fields or methods within the Licensor Name Space
other than those required/authorized by the Specification or Specifications being implemented
If the Gnu version were not Java then we would be powerless to help in a Java
newsgroup.
--
Lew
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