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>"When Apache resigned from the JCP in protest based on its inability to obtain a license..." Wasn't Apache seeking a license for a collection of tests, not th
by curt15 7y ago
>"When Apache resigned from the JCP in protest based on its inability to obtain a license..."
Wasn't Apache seeking a license for a collection of tests, not the right to implement the API itself? And what, under Oracle's argument, would be the legal status of GNU GCJ/Classpath?
- monocasa 7y agoApache was seeking the ability to access the tests, as passing those tests were the requirement to call it Java. Sun was using trademark (not copyright over API sequence structure and organization) to enforce this, sort of how Firefox does. I'd imagine that Oracle sees GCJ/classpath as infringing, but there's not enough money in enforcing that to be worth it. That's all gut feeling though, and I don't know of any information that'd let us confirm one way or another.