These are the final results of the Final Approval Ballot for JSR #196. The Executive Committee for SE/EE has approved this ballot.

JSR196

StageFinal Approval Ballot

Ballot durationJul 10, 2007 to Jul 23, 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 2007-07-11 Sun Microsystems, Inc. voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2007-07-12 Intel Corp. voted Yes with the following comment:
The Spec Lead has confirmed that the licenses for this JSR will not contain field of use restrictions as described below.  The rest of this comment describes a general procedure we employ as part of the determination of our vote.  If the licenses required to implement the specification are not publicly viewable, we ask the Spec Lead for confirmation that at least one alternative for the licenses does not limit field of use of a compatible implementation (e.g. prohibit or charge royalties for distributing for use on particular operating systems or particular devices or for use in particular environments or require implementation of features other than what is required in the spec).  We consider that in determining our vote.
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On 2007-07-17 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 2007-07-19 Borland Software Corporation voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2007-07-20 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 2007-07-20 Oracle voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2007-07-23 Hewlett-Packard voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2007-07-23 SAS Institute Inc. voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2007-07-23 BEA Systems voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2007-07-23 Fujitsu Limited voted Yes with no comment.
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