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From Prasad Varakur
Subject reg license implications in implementing/using the JDBC spec
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Responses Re: reg license implications in implementing/using the JDBC spec  (Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com>)
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Hi,
I am trying to understand how far the pgsql-jdbc driver is compliant with the JDBC-spec license. First couple of pages of the spec has license terms:

http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/jcp/jdbc-4_1-mrel-spec/jdbc4.1-fr-spec.pdf

   - clause(1) seems to grant license for evaluation purpose
   - clause(2) seems to grant license for compliant implementations as defined by (a)-(c), which has to be a fully compliant implementation which can pass the JDBC-TCK.


As I understand, the pgsql-jdbc is not evaluation, nor is a fully compliant implementation. Documentation also states, it has postgres specific extensions to the spec.

With this, my Qs are:
  1) Is pgsql-jdbc a legitimate implementation of JDBC-spec, conforming to the JDBC license terms? If so, how?
  2) Does postgres-JDBC Group obtained special license from Oracle/jdbc-Spec-owner for this implementation of pgsql-jdbc.
  3) Are users of  pgsql-jdbc also considered violating jdbc-spec-license terms, if pgsql-jdbc  is not a legitimate implementation of the JDBC-spec.

thanks,
-Prasad

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