Re: [jakarta.ee-spec.committee] On the timing of patent grants

[Mike Milinkovich <mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2018-06-19 7:41 AM, Steve Millidge (Payara) wrote:

On two tier “compliance” I don’t think there is anything that can be done to stop it. You will get open source projects claiming they pass the EE4J open source TCK, or the licensed Jakarta EE Working Group TCK as statements of fact and those that buy the brand to be “Jakarta EE Compatible”™. I think that’s simply the economics of open source. The working group and Eclipse Foundation have to work to create brand value in the eyes of the brand consumers to ensure it’s a no-brainer for an implementor to pay to license the brand.

I agree that statement of facts such as "here are the test results when we ran TCK v x.y.z" are unavoidable. I read some suggestions to go so far as to create another logo/badge for the free/open source compliance. I.e. to formalize the concept.

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