These are the final results of the JSR Review Ballot for JSR #315. The Executive Committee for SE/EE has approved this ballot.

JSR315

StageJSR Review Ballot

Ballot durationJun 19, 2007 to Jul 2, 2007

Votes

SE/EE

Apache Software Foundation

BEA Systems

Borland Software Corporation

Fujitsu Limited

Google Inc.

Hewlett-Packard

IBM

Intel Corp.

Lea, Doug

Nortel

Oracle

Red Hat

SAP SE

SAS Institute Inc.

Suleiman, Hani

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Vote Log

SE/EE

On 2007-06-19 Sun Microsystems, Inc. voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2007-06-19 Suleiman, Hani voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2007-07-02 Red Hat voted Yes with the following comment:
The spec lead of the EE6 specification has confirmed that the EE6 TCK would contain no "field of use restrictions", as originally raised by Apache with regard to another JSR (i.e. the SE TCK licensing). That is a good thing.

However, in the absence of an explicit JSPA rule that would forbid such field-of-use restrictions, we will remain worried that a similar issue might resurface anytime, for any JSR.

Consequently, in the future, for any submitted JSR (by SUNW or not), we will specifically expect the spec lead to provide clear information on that aspect and take the answer in account when casting our vote.
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On 2007-06-27 BEA Systems voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2007-07-01 Google Inc. voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2007-07-02 IBM voted Yes with the following comment:
IBM's vote is based on the technical merits of this JSR and is not a vote on the licensing terms.  IBM supports licensing models that create an open and level playing field by allowing third parties to create independent implementations of Java Specifications and that do not allow individuals or companies to exercise unnecessary control for proprietary advantage.  We support open source as a licensing model for contributions in the JCP, and would hope others will support this direction. This comment is not necessarily directed at the current business or license terms for this JSR, however, it is a statement of IBM's preferred licensing model.
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On 2007-07-02 Lea, Doug voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2007-07-02 SAS Institute Inc. voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2007-07-02 Intel Corp. voted Yes with the following comment:
We agree with the comments accompanying the Red Hat vote.  The Spec Lead has told us there are no "field of use restrictions" for this particular JSR. TCKs (JCP test suites) are intended to ensure compatibility and must not be used to restrict the use of implementations of JCP specifications.  Since this issue is so crucial to JCP providing open standards, all JCP JSRs should publicly state whether they restrict field of use for implementations of JCP specs in any of the JCP required licenses.  For every ballot, we will ask and will consider that in casting our vote.
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On 2007-07-02 Hewlett-Packard voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2007-07-02 Apache Software Foundation voted Abstain with the following comment:
The ASF has serious reservations about how the JCP operates following Sun's refusal to provide the Java SE TCK to the Apache Harmony project under terms complaint with the JSPA. Since Sun has not responded to the ASF's open Letter on this matter, the ASF is currently in the process of formulating a new policy towards the JCP (see jcp-open@apache.org) and all future JSRs will be evaluated in light of that policy. Since the policy has not yet been finalized, the ASF reluctantly abstains from voting at this time.  This is not a statement about the technology.

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On 2007-07-02 Fujitsu Limited voted Yes with no comment.
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