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. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/~per/