These are the final results of the Public Review Ballot for JSR #286. The Executive Committee for SE/EE has approved this ballot.

JSR286

StagePublic Review Ballot

Ballot durationAug 21, 2007 to Aug 27, 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 2007-08-21 SAP SE voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2007-08-22 Suleiman, Hani voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2007-08-22 BEA Systems voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2007-08-23 IBM voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2007-08-24 Sun Microsystems, Inc. voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2007-08-24 SAS Institute Inc. voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2007-08-25 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 2007-08-26 Oracle voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2007-08-27 Intel Corp. voted Yes with the following comment:
The Spec Lead has told us there are no "field of use restrictions" on implementations for this particular JSR. For every JCP ballot, we ask the Spec Lead whether such restrictions exist in their licenses for that JSR.  The licenses required to create an Independent Implementation must not be used to limit or restrict where or how compatible implementations can be used. Licenses containing such limitations do not meet the requirements of the JSPA and violate the expectations of the Java community that JCP specs can be openly implemented.
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On 2007-08-27 Hewlett-Packard voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2007-08-27 Apache Software Foundation voted Yes with the following comment:
The ASF votes "yes" owing to the spec leads affirmation that there will be no "field of use" restrictions.
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On 2007-08-27 Fujitsu Limited voted Yes with no comment.
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