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JSR #319
Availability Management for Java
JSR Review Ballot
Ballot duration: 2007-10-16 to: 2007-10-29

These are the final results of the JSR Review Ballot for JSR #319. The Executive Committee for SE/EE has approved this ballot.

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.

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SE/EE

On 2007-10-17 Sun Microsystems, Inc. voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2007-10-19 Hewlett-Packard voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2007-10-25 Intel Corp. voted Yes with the following comment:
We thank the Spec Lead both for using OSI approved open source licenses and also for assuring us that TCK Licenses will not include field of use restrictions.  The following is a general comment we include in our ballot statements: "TCK licenses must not be used to discriminate against or restrict compatible implementations of Java specifications by including field of use restrictions on the tested implementations or otherwise.  Licenses containing such limitations do not meet the requirements of the JSPA, the agreement under which the JCP operates, and violate the expectations of the Java community that JCP specs can be openly implemented."
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On 2007-10-23 Suleiman, Hani voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2007-10-23 SAS Institute Inc. voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2007-10-23 Lea, Doug voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2007-10-24 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 2007-10-26 BEA Systems voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2007-10-28 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 2007-10-28 Oracle voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2007-10-29 Nortel voted Yes with no comment.
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