Public open specs

[Dalibor Topic]

Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi Dalibor,
>
> On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 22:37 +0100, Dalibor Topic wrote:
>   
>>> So, any progress? It would be good to at least have the specs for the
>>> active projects (nio2, modules, mlvm, etc) published freely and openly
>>> if that is easier to accomplish on short notice before we liberate all
>>> the other relevant specs.
>>>   
>>>       
>> As far as I understand your initial request, you are interested in
>> getting the description of the class file format
>> changes for SE 6 published in a way similar to how they've been done for
>> other VM spec changes,
>> and those are the ones where I've been looking at.
>>     
>
> That was just an example. 
Ok. That's the one thing I am looking at, anyway, as it seems to be the
most promising one to me (the JVM spec
has been published for a long time without clickthroughs), in particular
in letting me get an idea how the whole J*
acronym system works.
> Ultimately getting all the specs for which Sun holds the copyrights under
> non-restricting terms compatible with the GPL would of course be the
> goal.
>   
I don't think I really understand what terms you believe to be to be
incompatible with the GPL. Do you
have a specific legal analysis to point me to?

I'm curious since I know that GPLd implementations of JSRs have been
around as long as JBoss
(a division of Red Hat) was, so I have trouble figuring out how both
JBoss and your claim can coexist,
figuratively speaking.

cheers,
dalibor topic

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