On 2018-10-03 7:00 PM, Bill Shannon
wrote:
I
understand the need to protect the Jakarta EE trademark
and branding. But, we have to be aware that there will
be projects that will want to show "compliance" with the
spec and tck, but without paying any additional
licensing fees. No matter how we word this restriction,
someone will figure out a way around it...
The TCK is free. There's no need to use
the source code and build it yourself to save money. The
only reason to use the source code is to do something that
the TCK license won't allow you to do, e.g., make a claim of
partial compatibility, or modify the tests before claiming
compatibility.
To add to what Bill says: there is *nothing* in this TCK
license that says anything about "...paying any additional
licensing fees." It is explicitly a free license to use the
TCK. If you use the free binary TCK provided under this
license you will be able to make factual statements of
compatibility. The still-being-drafted *trademark* license
will allow an entity to also use the Jakarta EE logo. I think
we at the EF (and still to be vetted by the Steering
Committee) have decided that the only financial requirement in
that TCK license will be that the entity is at least a
Participant Member of the Jakarta EE working group.
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