Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> WRONG! Recent stuff like JINI or Swing is under the Sun Community Source Code
> Licence which FORBIDS independent implementation (under a possibly free
> licence).
It seems like it will take a while to stamp out this misunderstanding ...
The JINI or Swing *code* is under the SCSL, so you can't use the SCSL code
to develop an independent implementation. Hardly unreasonable of Sun!
However, the *documentation* of JDK 1.3 (including Swing) is *not*
under the SCSL and it specifically *does* permit independent
implementation.
The license for the documentation is:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/relnotes/SMICopyright.html
Now that license does have some problems, but that is another discussion.
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--Per Bothner
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