Yesterday the Apache Software Foundation announced its resignation from the Java Community Process Executive (JCP) Committee. Apache has served on the Executive Committee (EC) for the past ten years, but following the recent vote over the Java SE 7 specification and the refusal by Oracle to provide a test kit for Java unencumbered by a license that contradicts the terms of the Java Specification Participation AgreementPDF, Apache said that it felt it had no option but to resign.

However, it is not as though this is a new issue, disagreements over the terms of the Technology Compatibility Kit (TCK) go back to Sun's stewardship of Java. When Oracle took over Sun in 2009, it inherited all of Sun's Java rights and properties.
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