On 24/06/2008, Roman Kennke <roman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > As we discussed a little on IRC earlier today, it's actually quite a > > ridiculous situation that GNU Classpath and OpenJDK are just about > > under the same license, but because of that 'or later' clause, they > > are incompatible. > > > IANAL either, but from my understanding this is not the problem. At > least not for contributors. The problem is copyright, and this is > regardless of the license, proprietary or free. If I look at Sun's code > and then go and implement something in GNU Classpath that is very > similar or equal to what I studied before in OpenJDK, I risk to be > blamed for copyright infringement. Normally in FLOSS projects this is > less of a problem because people have an attitude of sharing anyway, but > as you said, that doesn't count much from a legal POV. Of course, if the > licenses were compatible it would be much easier, we could simply import > the code in question into external/ and be done. > > Yes, it's the project-level import I was referred to here. If that were possible, it would automatically remove the possibility of code-copying for the most part. > /Roman > > -- > http://kennke.org/blog/ > > -- Andrew :-) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and the OpenJDK http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://openjdk.java.net PGP Key: 94EFD9D8 (http://subkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: F8EF F1EA 401E 2E60 15FA 7927 142C 2591 94EF D9D8
