These are the final results of the Final Approval Ballot for JSR #240. The Executive Committee for SE/EE has approved this ballot.

JSR240

StageFinal Approval Ballot

Ballot durationMay 20, 2008 to Jun 2, 2008

Votes

SE/EE

Apache Software Foundation

Eclipse Foundation, Inc

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 2008-05-27 SAP SE voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2008-05-30 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 2008-05-30 Oracle voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2008-05-30 Intel Corp. voted Yes with the following comment:
This is a general statement we make in ballot comments: JCP licenses say that if you implement everything required in a spec, don't subset or superset and pass the required test suite (TCK), then you get the use of pooled intellectual property from JCP members and can claim compatibility with the JCP spec.  The purpose of the test suite is to promote compatibility;  it must not be used to limit or restrict compatible implementations.  The materials provided with this ballot indicate that there are no Field of Use (FOU) issues for this JCP specification.
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On 2008-05-30 Sun Microsystems, Inc. voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2008-05-30 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 2008-05-31 Hewlett-Packard voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2008-05-31 Lea, Doug voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2008-06-02 SAS Institute Inc. voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2008-06-02 Nortel voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2008-06-02 Suleiman, Hani voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2008-06-02 Fujitsu Limited voted Abstain with no comment.
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