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Open Source And Closed Standards?

Posted by timothy on Sunday September 26, 2004 @02:22PM from the you-must-be-this-tall-to-enter dept.

jaaron writes "Can open source and closed standards work together? That's the question asked by Kevin Bedell in his O'Reilly weblog article. The issue springs from questions on an OSI mailing list, hinting that Sun Microsystems is looking for an open source license that would require derivatives to maintain test suite compatibility. Under such a scheme Sun could maintain control of the Java API but allow open implementations."

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Re:Its called a trademark silly by k98sven · 2004-09-27 00:55 · Score: 0, Offtopic

people don't have to "release" thier code under the GPL even though they build and link it with gcc.

Link it to what.. The GNU C libraries? Then yes they would have to GPL their code. Except that the GNU C libraries aren't under the GPL. They are under the GPL with an exception allowing you to link to them without having to GPL your code.