15 RFR (S) 8249205: Remove unnecessary trademark symbols

Pavel Rappo pavel.rappo at oracle.com
Mon Jul 13 23:01:51 UTC 2020


Mark,

Since we are in this area, what about this servicemark?

    *     at the Java Developer Connection <sup>SM</sup></li>
    *     <li><a href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/tech/index-jsp-142216.html"
    *     target="_top">Java Foundation Classes (JFC)</a> home page</li>

Separately: does that "Java Developer Connection" refer to anything meaningful these days?
I could only find archival records such as:

  https://web.archive.org/web/20000510010920/http://developer.java.sun.com/
  https://web.archive.org/web/19991013065927/http://developer.java.sun.com:80/developer/membership.html

> On 13 Jul 2020, at 20:13, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
> 
> RFE: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8249205
> Webrev: https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mr/rev/8249205/
> 
> Oracle’s legal department has advised that it is no longer necessary to
> place trademark symbols after the term “Java,” nor after compound terms
> that begin with “Java” (e.g., “JavaBeans,” “Java Naming and Directory
> Interface,” etc.).
> 
> This doc-only patch removes those symbols, on 545 lines across 337 files.
> 
> For ease of review I’ve placed a couple of other files in the webrev
> directory:
> 
>  https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mr/rev/8249205/diff-U0.patch
>    -- Output of `diff -U0`
>  https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mr/rev/8249205/unique-added-lines
>    -- Unique added lines only, modulo whitespace
> 
> Passes tiers 1-3 on the usual platforms.  (Yes, I’m paranoid.)
> 
> Thanks,
> - Mark



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