Comments on: openjdk trademark license http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/04/02/openjdk-trademark-license/ Ramblings on law school in New York, free software, and the spaces in between. Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:48:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Luis http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/04/02/openjdk-trademark-license/#comment-26840 Luis Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:01:26 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/?p=1213#comment-26840 Simon: I didn't figure, but great to hear that from the horse's mouth. I may actually be able to slip up to the OSCON weekend (though not formal OSCON itself); if so, I certainly hope to participate. Simon: I didn’t figure, but great to hear that from the horse’s mouth. I may actually be able to slip up to the OSCON weekend (though not formal OSCON itself); if so, I certainly hope to participate.

]]> By: Simon Phipps http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/04/02/openjdk-trademark-license/#comment-26839 Simon Phipps Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:00:13 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/?p=1213#comment-26839 Note this is not the last word in trademark licensing for open source at Sun. As I implied by my blog post[1], we hope to carry on "experimenting" and we'd like to continue the conversation with other communities that started at OSCON last year about how to evolve a set of good solutions for trademarks in open source generally. [1] http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/answering_michael Note this is not the last word in trademark licensing for open source at Sun. As I implied by my blog post[1], we hope to carry on “experimenting” and we’d like to continue the conversation with other communities that started at OSCON last year about how to evolve a set of good solutions for trademarks in open source generally.

[1] http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/answering_michael

]]> By: Luis http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/04/02/openjdk-trademark-license/#comment-26836 Luis Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:56:27 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/?p=1213#comment-26836 Don: short answer: that's why you won't see this license on 'Java(tm)' any time soon. :) longer answer: I think that's one of the prices you pay for having a real, vibrant, decentralized community. If you can come up with a better formulation that doesn't give the center veto power (with the resultant problems), while resolving your issues, I (and many others) are all ears. Don: short answer: that’s why you won’t see this license on ‘Java(tm)’ any time soon. :)

longer answer: I think that’s one of the prices you pay for having a real, vibrant, decentralized community. If you can come up with a better formulation that doesn’t give the center veto power (with the resultant problems), while resolving your issues, I (and many others) are all ears.

]]> By: Don Marti http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/04/02/openjdk-trademark-license/#comment-26835 Don Marti Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:48:00 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/?p=1213#comment-26835 You could still do naughty, trademark-reputation-harming things in a version where the "vast majority" of the code was legit. Leaking personally identifiable information, weakening the random number generator -- this wouldn't work for the trademark terms of a project intended for end users. You could still do naughty, trademark-reputation-harming things in a version where the “vast majority” of the code was legit. Leaking personally identifiable information, weakening the random number generator — this wouldn’t work for the trademark terms of a project intended for end users.

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