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Re: GNU Classpath
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: GNU Classpath |
Date: |
Thu, 12 May 2005 09:22:16 -0400 |
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> The GNU Classpath website
> http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/faq/faq.html
> is full of violations of the published guidelines for use of Sun
> trademarks:
> http://www.sun.com/policies/trademarks/.
> The trademarks should never be used as nouns or in possessives, but GNU
> Classpath's web site does that all over the place.
That's OK. It's Sun's responsibility to actively complain about such
violations in order to protect its trademark, or else risk losing it.
> The GNU Classpath project takes great care in establishing that
> developers are clean with respect to not having read the
> implementation's source code--but should developers also be clean from
> having read the API specification? The API's license file specifically
> says that nothing other than internal usage of the specification is
> allowed except for complete implementations that pass the required
> conformance tests.
The license can't be saying that. Otherwise it would mean you can't use the
API for the purpose of writing application code ;-P.
Stefan