Public open specs

Dalibor Topic Dalibor.Topic at Sun.COM
Tue Oct 14 08:40:40 PDT 2008


Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Got anything yet? 
Identified the process bottleneck, trying to figure out a fix.
> Can Sun can publish the core Class File Specifications
> under terms that are acceptable to the community, so that getting access
> to the document doesn't take away any rights of publishing an
> independent or openjdk based implementation under the GPL without the
> restrictions on scope that the current terms 2 (a - c) inflict upon us
> hackers?
>   
Something like
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jvms/second_edition/ClassFileFormat-Java5.pdf
?

cheers,
dalibor topic

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