Affadavit for OpenJDK challenge

[Michael Nascimento]

Yes, I feel the same about it. Looking forward to hearing some
feedback from you, guys.

Regards,
Michael

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Stephen Colebourne <scolebourne at joda.org> wrote:
> 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
>