java.net, JavaOne

Tue Nov 8 19:40:00 GMT 2005

On Tuesday 08 November 2005 17:09, Hans Boehm wrote:
> For the sake of completeness, here's the clause I worry about:
>> 12. [...] notwithstanding any other provision of these web site Terms
> of Participation [...]

> Note that this is explicitly a license grant, and (if I'm understanding
> this correctly) seems to say that it takes precedence over other terms of
> the agreement.

Oh yes, I see it now. That's fun: we have one clause which states that the 
licence applicable to specific software prevails over the whole ToP, and 
another clause which says we grant the Hosts a broad licence notwithstanding 
any other provision of the ToP. So who shaves the barber?
My own interpretation would be that the prevailing in clause 2 takes precence 
over the notwithstanding in clause 12, but IANAL. I can see why one would be 
wary of posting code of which one was not the copyright owner and/or code 
which you wish to keep under a specific licence such as GPL to java.net - but 
I wasn't planning to do that anyway.
Project Looking Glass is GPL, so maybe they got a clarification. Maybe send a 
mail to the owners?
Cheers,
Chris
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