Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Type conversions with the empty string Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2017 23:24:48 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: <15m3gy8mef7tv$.93ppj4f0t83$.dlg@40tude.net> <7fa3ca72-434c-4a41-88d4-1dfe900903f2@googlegroups.com> <6174cfc5-83af-4f1c-a83a-2b83a6f9af7a@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: PBuS014lhzVyHjLbXmo/ZQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:36353 On 2/19/2017 10:53 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 2/19/2017 9:13 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: >> On 2/19/2017 5:42 AM, lewbloch@gmail.com wrote: >>> Andreas Leitgeb wrote: >>>> Andreas Leitgeb wrote: >>>>> Joerg Meier wrote: >>>>>> lewbloch wrote: >>>>>>> Anyone who puts classes in `java.lang....` like that is evil and >>>>>>> breaking the law. >>>>>> What law ? >>> >>> Trademark and copyright law. >> >> I think that depends a lot on what you use it for >> and what Java implementation. >> >> If you distribute it and call it Java then it is a >> violation of trademark. > > You can add your own code and not violate the trademark. It is done by > every java programmer. No. Java programmers distribute Java applications running in a Java runtime environment. Java implementation programmers distribute Java runtime environments. Distributing a runtime environment claiming to be Java that are not exactly Java is considered a violation of the Java trademark. See SUN vs MS. Arne