Public open specs

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi Dalibor,

On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 11:12 +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 21:16 +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 19:55 +0200, Dalibor Topic wrote:
> > > Not yet (outside the JSR spec document). The process bottleneck is
> > > identified, working on a fix.
> > 
> > That is great! Any timelines for these process fixes to be cleared up?
> > It has been a little funny that Sun is now producing GPLed code for the
> > various JSRs they lead, but still publish the JSR specs themselves under
> > terms that conflict (through the 2a-c restrictions) with the liberties
> > granted by the GPL. I came up with the following list of JSRs that have
> > a Sun lead and for which OpenJDK provides (prototype) GPL code, but
> > which are published under non-free terms preventing others to also
> > publish (independent) implementations or extend the OpenJDK provided
> > ones:
> > 
> > JSR 105: XML Digital Signature APIs
> > JSR 199: Java Compiler API
> > JSR 202: JavaTM Class File Specification Update
> > JSR 203: More New I/O APIs for the JavaTM Platform ("NIO.2")
> > JSR 221: JDBC 4.0 API Specification
> > JSR 222: Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) 2.0
> > JSR 223: Scripting for the Java Platform
> > JSR 224: Java API for XML-Based Web Services (JAX-WS) 2.0
> > JSR 250: Common Annotations for the Java Platform
> > JSR 255: Java Management Extensions (JMX) Specification, version 2.0
> > JSR 269: Pluggable Annotation Processing API
> > JSR 270: Java SE 6 Release Contents
> > JSR 277: Java Module System
> > JSR 292: Supporting Dynamically Typed Languages on the Java Platform
> > JSR 294: Improved Modularity Support in the Java Programming Language
> > 
> > Would be great to see all these specs finally liberated.
> 
> Any progress on the fix to the process bottlenecks so these Sun
> controlled specs that are essential for OpenJDK can be freely and openly
> published?

Ping?

Thanks,

Mark