Re: reg license implications in implementing/using the JDBC spec

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От Prasad Varakur
Тема Re: reg license implications in implementing/using the JDBC spec
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Ответ на Re: reg license implications in implementing/using the JDBC spec  (Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com>)
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Thanks for the prompt reply Dave.
>>  I would argue that the pgsql-jdbc driver existed long before this license, but I'm not a lawyer.

Sure.. but earlier version of JDBC also had some license terms (for 3.0 looks more stringent).

>> Why do you want to know ?
I am trying to understand the potential license implications/infringements of implementing the spec (or contributing to such implementation), and, as a end-user, using such implementation in an appl. Just part of my legal due diligence (as the spec license seem to allow only full-implementations)

thanks for clarifying.
-Prasad

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 8:38 AM, Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com> wrote:

On 28 September 2016 at 20:44, Prasad Varakur <varakur@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to understand how far the pgsql-jdbc driver is compliant with the JDBC-spec license. First couple of pages of the spec has license terms:

http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/jcp/jdbc-4_1-mrel-spec/jdbc4.1-fr-spec.pdf

   - clause(1) seems to grant license for evaluation purpose
   - clause(2) seems to grant license for compliant implementations as defined by (a)-(c), which has to be a fully compliant implementation which can pass the JDBC-TCK.


As I understand, the pgsql-jdbc is not evaluation, nor is a fully compliant implementation. Documentation also states, it has postgres specific extensions to the spec.

With this, my Qs are:
  1) Is pgsql-jdbc a legitimate implementation of JDBC-spec, conforming to the JDBC license terms? If so, how?
Not sure, nobody has ever asked this question before. I would argue that the pgsql-jdbc driver existed long before this license, but I'm not a lawyer.
 
  2) Does postgres-JDBC Group obtained special license from Oracle/jdbc-Spec-owner for this implementation of pgsql-jdbc.
no 
  3) Are users of  pgsql-jdbc also considered violating jdbc-spec-license terms, if pgsql-jdbc  is not a legitimate implementation of the JDBC-spec.
again not sure. 

I do know that Oracle is well aware of the driver and has never made mention of it.

Why do you want to know ?







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