IP issues

Posted Aug 25, 2010 9:00 UTC (Wed) by Blaisorblade (guest, #25465)
In reply to: A very grumpy editor's thoughts on Oracle by yokem_55
Parent article: A very grumpy editor's thoughts on Oracle

The article mentions possible copyright issues on the specification - which would be crazy (i.e. prevent independent reimplementations by default). It is true that the Java license seems to have an exception for proper reimplementations which excludes subsets and supersets (for the standard namespaces), and this probably covers reuse of the specification.

Anyway, here's an old article forecasting this lawsuit, because of the patent issues:
http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/110/