11 RFR (XS) 8205956: Fix usage of “OpenJDK” in build and test instructions

mark.reinhold at oracle.com mark.reinhold at oracle.com
Thu Jun 28 18:02:54 UTC 2018


2018/6/27 23:21:34 -0700, volker.simonis at gmail.com:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 12:08 AM, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
>> ...
>> 
>> “OpenJDK” is a trademarked term, per the OpenJDK Trademark Notice [1].
>> As such it should be used only as an adjective, and not as a noun.
>> Phrases such as “the OpenJDK” could be replaced by the more correct,
>> and much more verbose, “the OpenJDK JDK,” or “the open-source JDK,”
>> but in most cases the context is sufficiently clear that we can just
>> write “the JDK.”
>> 
> 
> Sorry, but I don't see any sense in this change!

Trademark law doesn’t always make a lot of sense.

> Do you plan to do the same for the OpenJDK web pages and the OpenJDK
> Wiki.

Yes, on a best-effort basis, but priority will be given to more-prominent
documents such as these.

>       Do you plan to scan all the OpenJDK mails and reject them if
> they use "OpenJDK" inappropriately?

No, of course not.  That’d be silly.

> And by the way, "JDK" is an Oracle trademark as well (see [1]) so this
> change is basically a NOP.

Trademark law doesn’t always make a lot of sense.

- Mark



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