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From: "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com>
Subject: RE: JCK License implications (was: State of Server-Side Java)
To: 'Greg Lewis' <glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au>
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> 
> Well, it might be even worse than that.  Its not clear to me
> that I'll still be able to release patchsets once we merge a
> newer version of the JDK 1.2.2 source code as that code will
> have been obtained under the same licensing conditions as the
> JCK.
>
That merger had better give you a pretty great advantage, to make up for the
legal lock-out.

> 
> I'm considering how this can be avoided while still making 
> progress on a binary release.  I really don't want to lose
> the possibility of things like Fuyuhiko-san's native thread
> patches happening in the future.
> 
Perhaps you could track two patchsets. One for Sun's newer code, and one for
Sun's public release.

Alternately, perhaps we could tell Sun that this is a blocking problem for a
community effort, and ask them to release the newer code under SCSL. After
all, it is yesterday's technology, with 1.3 on the market. :-)

    Kees Jan

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