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Specification: JAVA PLATFORM, STANDARD EDITION
("Specification")
Version: 6
Status: Final Release
Release: December 7, 2006
Copyright 2006 SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC.
4150 Network Circle, Santa Clara, California 95054,
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communications which discuss the Specification
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constitute a significant portion of the Specification.
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Implementations. Sun also grants you a perpetual,
non-exclusive, non-transferable, worldwide, fully
paid-up, royalty free, limited license (without the
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patent rights it may have covering the Specification
to create and/or distribute an Independent
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implements the Specification including all its
required interfaces and functionality; (b) does not
modify, subset, superset or otherwise extend the
Licensor Name Space, or include any public or
protected packages, classes, Java interfaces, fields
or methods within the Licensor Name Space other than
those required/authorized by the Specification or
Specifications being implemented; and (c) passes the
Technology Compatibility Kit (including satisfying the
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You, a perpetual, non-exclusive, non-transferable,
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implementations of the Specification to develop,
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respect to such claims, shall terminate if You
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5. Definitions. For the purposes of this Agreement:
"Independent Implementation" shall mean an
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materials nor, except with an appropriate and separate
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mean the public class or interface declarations whose
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equivalents in any subsequent naming convention
adopted by Sun through the Java Community Process, or
any recognized successors or replacements thereof; and
"Technology Compatibility Kit" or "TCK" shall mean the
test suite and accompanying TCK User's Guide provided
by Sun which corresponds to the Specification and
that was available either (i) from Sun's 120 days
before the first release of Your Independent
Implementation that allows its use for commercial
purposes, or (ii) more recently than 120 days from
such release but against which You elect to test Your
implementation of the Specification.
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Department of Defense (DoD) acquisitions) and with 48
C.F.R. 2.101 and 12.212 (for non-DoD acquisitions).
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The U.N. Convention for the International Sale of
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No modification to this Agreement will be binding,
unless in writing and signed by an authorized
representative of each party.
Rev. April, 2006