From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2008-04-03T23:20:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Sun's Overview of Ruby and JRuby

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Michal Suchanek wrote:
|
| The specs used to have a very onerous license, and this has not
| changed much. They are now free for "evaluation" - basically
| discussion and developing in Java, and additionally you can use them
| to write a complete tested independent implementation.
| It is not clear what the status is when your implementation is
| incomplete or does not pass the test, and the tests are very
| proprietary, require an agreement in writing, and are normally
| licensed only for OpenJDK - the Sun implementation (or to commercial
| partners I guess).

You get sued by Sun, stop developing your JDK, and instead develop your
own virtual machine an call it CLR/.NET?

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/1998/11-17sun.mspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J%2B%2B#Litigation_against_J.2B.2B

- -- Phillip Gawlowski
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