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field of use restrictionsfield of use restrictionsPosted Aug 18, 2010 21:17 UTC (Wed) by SilverWave (guest, #55000)In reply to: Free platform by coriordan Parent article: A very grumpy editor's thoughts on Oracle
I would be interested in your opinion on this comment by jilocasin:
"It's Oracle upset that Google has routed around their lucrative Java Mobile licensing by out developing them. If you were unaware, Sun's official Java test suite comes with field of use restrictions that keep it limited to the desktop space. If you certified your open source Java JVM to comply, you can't use it on servers or mobile devices (or anything else for that matter like TV set top boxes). For anything else you have to pay Oracle a license fee. It's these field of use restrictions (among other reasons) that has kept the Harmony project from certifying their project as "Official Java"."
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OpenTCK Posted Aug 18, 2010 22:00 UTC (Wed) by mjw (subscriber, #16740) [Link]
Although the TCK is proprietary and you only get access to it under NDA, it doesn't come with such restrictions. See e.g the OpenJDK JCK http://openjdk.java.net/legal/openjdk-tck-license.pdf
Note that Google actually has access to this: http://openjdk.java.net/groups/conformance/JckAccess/jck-...
That said, it is still a big problem if you care about freedom, java and the JCK and it is a long and somewhat sad story: http://gnu.wildebeest.org/blog/mjw/2007/04/21/openjck/
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