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It may be the case that now there's simply nobody who cares in a position to actually get it fixed


Yeah. If there's an unintended license-compatibility problem, the people who'd need to fix it are Oracle's lawyers. They might have a different attitude towards Open Source than Sun, to put it mildly.


Wouldn't a clarification of intent be based on evidence from the people that created the license? It doesn't matter what the lawyers think, they can't change history. You'd need the lawyers to relicense, a completely different way to solve the issue.


Intent and two dollars will get you a cup of coffee. The court will read the license that was written, not the one that Sun intended to write.


Yes and no.

If they actually wrote the wrong thing, then intent is irrelevant.

But if the meaning of a term is unclear, then you can clarify the meaning.




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