Field of use

[Mark Wielaard]

On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 16:05 +0100, Volker Simonis wrote:
> - it claims there is a patent grant trough the "Java Language
> Specification" but if you read that carefully you will notice that it
> "only applies for implementations of Java that fully comply with the
> Java Language Specification" which can be only proves by passing the
> latest TCP tests from Oracle. But these tests are not free AND they
> contain 'a field of use'  clause!

And this is also not true BTW. Although the TCK for OpenJDK derivatives
is annoyingly non-free and only available under an NDA, it doesn't
contain any 'field of use' clauses (which would be incompatible with
releasing the result under the GPL). You can read for yourself here:
http://openjdk.java.net/legal/openjdk-tck-license.pdf