Posted by Sven Gothel on Feb 25, 2013; 6:26pm
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/JOGL-JavaFX-integration-and-the-future-tp4028263p4028366.html

On 02/25/2013 07:08 PM, Dejay [via jogamp] wrote:
> Hello,
>
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>
> PS, about licensing, it should be fine for applications:
> http://fxexperience.com/2013/02/february-open-source-update/#more-2496
>
>     Richard Bair wrote
>     My understanding (and I’m not a lawyer)

And this is the whole problem we have,
there is no clear statement about Oracle's source and binary license
towards the patent grant which they currently only grant for OpenJDK
on TCK approved builds!

Richard Blair's statement is a NULL statement ending right after his
disclaimer,since nobody really cares what he 'understands' personally.

Elaboration of this is available here:
  https://jogamp.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=682

As long Oracle is not capable of publishing a legally binding statement
we all are able to understand properly, there is a lot of FUD going around.

The issue Oracle vs Google might be able to solve it,
however decisions in such cases lie very often in the very detail
and may not give small companies 'peace of mind'.

IMHO it would be very helpful if Oracle finally could turn around
and give a patent grant to all products based on OpenJDK
including mobile/embedded.
AFAIK, the latter is excluded in their binary license terms.

Many questions to be answered.

~Sven