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Alan Zeichick: Can you confirm or deny the accuracy of Intel’s comment, that the spec lead told Intel that Sun will not include field of use restrictions in the Java EE 6 licenses? Can you comment on whether Sun stands behind what the spec lead allegedly told Intel?

Update: Intel's comments on JSR 317 and JSR 318, with emphasis added:

On 2007-07-30 Intel Corp. voted Yes with the following comment: The Spec Lead has told us there are no "field of use restrictions" on implementations for this particular JSR. The Apache open letter about Java SE (http://www.apache.org/jcp/sunopenletter.html) claimed that a confidential license for a required JCP test suite restricts how Independent Implementations of that JCP spec can be used. Licenses to test for JCP compatibility must not be used to limit or restrict competing, compatible implementations; licenses containing such limitations do not meet the requirements of the JSPA, the agreement under which the JCP operates. For every JCP ballot, we will ask the Spec Lead whether such restrictions exist in their licenses for that JSR. We have been asking that for the licenses for the particular JSR under ballot, but are considering the view expressed in the Apache Foundation JSR 316 ballot comment that Spec Leads who do this for any JSR should not lead new JSRs, so we may start asking Spec Leads if they do it for any JSRs.