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Re: GNU Classpath
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John Hasler |
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Re: GNU Classpath |
Date: |
Thu, 12 May 2005 10:27:26 -0500 |
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jphamlore writes:
> 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: ...
I see nothing on that site violates trademark law.
> The trademarks should never be used as nouns or in possessives, but GNU
> Classpath's web site does that all over the place.
Sun's suggestions are not law and a trademark is not a copyright. Sun does
not own the word Java (or the word Sun, for that matter).
> 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?
They don't need to be. Copyright does not protect the API: only Sun's
specific expression of it.
> 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.
So? They are using it internally to develop their implementation. They
are not distributing the document or any derivative of it.
--
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA