[5447] in java-interest
Re: Intellectual Property and Java Cup International Contest
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kenneth Lum)
Fri Feb 9 10:18:02 1996
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 21:52:58 -0800
From: Kenneth Lum <kinlum@hooked.net>
To: Alexandre Valais- Academic Technology Deployment <avalais@bugleboy.Corp.Sun.COM>
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM, alexandre.valais@corp.sun.com
Then won't it be appropriate to incorporate the non-profit intent
in the official rules? Something like sun.com will not re-use
the idea or to directly generate profits etc.
-- Kenneth
Alexandre Valais- Academic Technology Deployment wrote:
>
> 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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> 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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