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Re: [jakarta.ee-spec.committee] Jakarta EE 8 certification goal
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On 2018-05-08 8:15 AM, Richard Monson-Haefel wrote:
Would it be possible to simply create a one page Jakarta EE 8 spec
that says Jakarta EE 8 products have to conform to the Java EE 8
Specification and than use the existing TCK to test and certify? I’m
not clear on the legal aspects of that but if that is possible we
could actually knock out Jakarata EE 8 quickly and move on to all the
other decisions needed before embarking on Jakarta EE 9.
No, this would is not possible for exactly the legal issues you mention.
It has to do with how we pick up rights to the patents which have been
licensed via the JCP. There is no way to carry those licenses forward,
so what we are going to have to do is stand up "expert groups" (if
that's what we call them) that include as many of the companies and
individuals who worked on the original JSRs. At a minimum we'll be
looking for the "big three" patent holders (Oracle, IBM, Red Hat) to
join into those groups so that all essential claims to which they have
patents will be picked up by the new process. Otherwise we will be
releasing Jakarta EE 8 with no granted patent rights, and that would be
a big mistake.
My guess is that the above paragraph could spur about 20 emails
questioning every aspect of it. Please resist the temptation :) We are
working hard with the lawyers to figure all of this stuff out but there
is still a lot a moving parts. But getting the flows for patent rights
done correctly is very important, and is getting quite a bit of attention.
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Mike Milinkovich
mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(m) +1.613.220.3223
