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Yeah. If there's an unintended license-compatibility problem, the people who'd need to fix it are Oracle's lawyers. They might have a different attitude towar
by gherkin0 11y ago
Yeah. If there's an unintended license-compatibility problem, the people who'd need to fix it are Oracle's lawyers. They might have a different attitude towards Open Source than Sun, to put it mildly.
- Dylan16807 11y agoWouldn't a clarification of intent be based on evidence from the people that created the license? It doesn't matter what the lawyers think, they can't change history. You'd need the lawyers to relicense, a completely different way to solve the issue.
- lmm 11y agoIntent and two dollars will get you a cup of coffee. The court will read the license that was written, not the one that Sun intended to write.
- Dylan16807 11y agoYes and no. If they actually wrote the wrong thing, then intent is irrelevant. But if the meaning of a term is unclear, then you can clarify the meaning.