Affadavit for OpenJDK challenge

[Stephen Colebourne]

I wanted to place on public record my opposition to the legal statement 
that I have had to sign as part of the Open JDK challenge.

"I hereby grant to the Sponsor the absolute right and permission to use 
my name, address and/or photograph in any and all advertising and 
promotional materials, or to refrain from doing so, in any manner or 
media whatsoever, worldwide, for advertising and promotional purposes in 
conjunction with promotions for the Contest without notice to me and 
without further compensation. I shall have no right of approval, no 
claim to any compensation, and no claim arising out of the use, 
alteration, distortion or illusionary effect or use in any composite 
form of my name, address, photograph or likeness."

Specifically, I object in the strongest terms to giving Sun Microsystems 
full and absolute rights to publish my entire private home address as 
they see fit. I don't know whether this was just bad legalese, or 
whether privacy means less in the US, but signing this has been a big 
deal for me. (It is possible that this is a legal requrement for 
competitions, and if so then I withdraw the complaint).

I hope this email serves as a warning to any other challenge entrant as 
to exactly how much they are signing away. Should the challenge concept 
be repeated, I would ask that this clause (address) be reviewed.

thanks for listening,
Stephen