Re: [ee4j-community] Requirements around duplicating spec jars?

[Mike Milinkovich <mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2017-11-27 6:07 PM, John D. Ament wrote:

An implementation can choose to depend on "API jar files" (where they exist) from the reference implementation as a third party dependency, under the terms of the open source license for the reference implementation.

So... that makes it much clearer actually.  But if I choose to not depend on the RI, can I license those files under another open source license?  Assuming that they pass a sigtest only, and don't include javadocs from the RI.  E.g. it's not a fork, but provides the same API (clean room implementation, for what its worth).

With the caveat that we have not written any of this down yet: yes.

It is our intent that if you create a fully independent implementation based solely on the spec you would be able to license that independent implementation as you choose. And that includes choosing the open source license you want.

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