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The OSGi Alliance is willing to receive input, suggestions and other feedback (“Feedback”) on the OSGi Specifications. By providing such Feedback to the OSGi Alliance, you grant to the OSGi Alliance and all its Members a non-exclusive, non-transferable, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free copyright license to copy, publish, license, modify, sublicense or otherwise distribute and exploit your Feedback for any purpose. Likewise, if incorporation of your Feedback would cause an implementation of an OSGi Specification, including as it may be modified, amended, or published at any point in the future (“Future Specification”), to necessarily infringe a patent or patent application that you own or control, you hereby commit to grant to all implementers of such OSGi Specification or Future Specification an irrevocable, worldwide, sublicenseable, royalty free license under such patent or patent application to make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale, import and export products or services that implement such OSGi Specification or Future Specification. You warrant that (a) to the best of your knowledge you have the right to provide this Feedback, and if you are providing Feedback on behalf of a company, you have the rights to provide Feedback on behalf of your company; (b) the Feedback is not confidential to you and does not violate the copyright or trade secret interests of another; and (c) to the best of your knowledge, use of the Feedback would not cause an implementation of an OSGi Specification or a Future Specification to necessarily infringe any third-party patent or patent application known to you. You also acknowledge that the OSGi Alliance is not required to incorporate your Feedback into any version of an OSGi Specification or a Future Specification.

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Compendium 4.3 and Residential 4.3 published! The OSGi Service Platform Release 4 Compendium Version 4.3 and Residential Version 4.3 specification documents are now available for download. Read more...

OSGi Alliance Names Peter Kriens Invited Researcher. The OSGi™ Alliance has named OSGi Fellow Peter Kriens an Invited Researcher, honoring 14 years of leadership and development of OSGi technology. As the former evangelist and technical director for the Alliance, Kriens articulated and promoted the vision and the benefits of modular software for developers and software users from the onset of the OSGi Alliance. Read more...

OSGi Alliance makes drafts of the OSGi Core Release 5 and OSGi Enterprise Release 5 specifications available for download. The OSGi Alliance now has the OSGi Core Release 5 and OSGi Enterprise Release 5 specifications ready for download. These proposed final draft specifications are made available under the OSGi Distribution and Feedback License.

OSGi JavaOne Rock Stars BJ Hargrave, OSGi CTO and Fellow, and Peter Kriens, OSGi Technical Director, Evangelist and Fellow, have been named JavaOne Rock Stars for their top-rated "Why OSGi?" presentation at JavaOne 2011. The JavaOne Rock Star Program started in 2005 to recognize speakers for their outstanding session content and speaking ability. Click here for all of the 2011 JavaOne Rock Stars and further information.

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