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Intellectual Property and Java Cup International Contest
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexandre Valais- Academic Technol)
Fri Feb 9 00:14:22 1996
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 20:07:04 -0800
From: avalais@bugleboy.Corp.Sun.COM (Alexandre Valais- Academic Technology Deployment)
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
Cc: alexandre.valais@corp.sun.com
The attached message has been posted to the FAQ area on the
Java Cup International WebSite:
http://javacontest.sun.com/faq/index.html.
We hope this clarifies Sun's intent on the submitted applets
to Java Cup.
Please feel free to share and circulate this information.
Alexandre Valais- Project Manager- Java Cup International
Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation
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[Contest FAQ]
Frequently Asked Questions about
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Why has Sun Microsystems included the licensing language in the
Java Cup International Official Rules with regard to public domain
release of applets submitted?
There has been quite a bit of newsgroup discussion about Sun's
perceived motive for requiring participants in the Java Cup
International Contest, as a fall-back position, to grant Sun a
non-exclusive license to copy, modify, display, and sub-license
the entries. We thought it would be helpful to clarify Sun's
intentions regarding the third paragraph of the Important Terms
section of the Official Rules.
When we surveyed the 41 countries we have included in the Contest,
it became clear that there are many legal and administrative rules
about how Intellectual Property (IP) issues must be handled and
what rights can be created. Sun's preference, in line with our drive
to make as many Java applets as possible freely available to the public,
was to have all contestants waive their IP rights to their particular
applet(s), so that anyone else could then download and use all
these great programs without any restriction or payment.
It turns out that it is not always possible, believe it or not,
simply to waive some or all IP rights in certain countries. So we
thought that the second best solution would be to have contestants
give Sun a license to distribute such applets via the Net.
There is no intention on Sun's part to profit directly in any
monetary sense from the licensing of the contestants' individual
applets. In this context, we are only acting as a pipeline, as
part of our promotion of Java to the Internet community.
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