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Sun releases new license for Java Compatibility Tests to the OpenJDK community
Sun Microsystems, Inc. has
announced
the OpenJDK(TM) Community Technology Compatibility Kit (TCK) License.
"With this
release, Sun is placing the means for certifying "Write Once, Run
Anywhere(TM)" compatibility into the hands of the community.
This license is for the Java(TM) Compatibility Kit (JCK). The JCK is
the Technology Compatibility Kit, a suite of tests, tools and documentation
that determines whether or not an implementation complies with the Java
Platform Standard Edition 6 specification."
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Sun releases new license for Java Compatibility Tests to the OpenJDK community Posted Aug 16, 2007 19:44 UTC (Thu) by skitching (subscriber, #36856) [Link] The introductory paragraph in this statement by Sun is highly misleading. The rest needs to be read with care to understand exactly what Sun is offering.
In particular: "to test complete implementations that are substantially derived from OpenJDK".
This "license" to run the java test suite therefore only applies to their own code, or minor tweaks thereof. And of course such derivatives clearly have to follow the same license as OpenJDK. There is, as you would expect, a fair bit of dissatisfaction at Apache over this. An official response to Sun will likely be appearing in the near future.
Does any other company have such a schizophrenic attitude to OSS as Sun?
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