On Tuesday 4 July 2000, at 23 h 0, the keyboard of Per Bothner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It seems like it will take a while to stamp out this misunderstanding ... ... > However, the *documentation* of JDK 1.3 (including Swing) is *not* > under the SCSL and it specifically *does* permit independent > implementation. Apparently, not everyone agrees on this (starting with Sun itself who never replied to demands of clarification and who continuously praises the SCSL as a mean to avoid forks). And, yet, there is no free implementation of Swing, meaning a program which uses it is, at best, in "contrib". http://www.sun.com/jini/licensing/scslfaq.html : > If you choose to implement a "clean room" clone of Jini technology, > you are subject to any IP claims related to the technology. -- http://www.debian.org/~bortz/
