From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15295 invoked by alias); 13 Mar 2012 18:39:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 15270 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Mar 2012 18:39:21 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:39:03 +0000 Received: from int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.11]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q2DId3jf007938 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:39:03 -0400 Received: from zebedee.pink (ovpn-113-151.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.113.151]) by int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q2DId2jm004074; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:39:02 -0400 Message-ID: <4F5F9445.5060108@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:39:00 -0000 From: Andrew Haley User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: java@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Which library implementation to use/work on? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact java-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: java-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2012-03/txt/msg00037.txt.bz2 On 03/13/2012 06:26 PM, Mike Hearn wrote: > Just to double check, if OpenJDK is now under a compatible license, > does that mean copy/paste of code from it is OK? In theory yes, but all code contributed to GNU Classpath has to be assigned to the Free Software Foundation. You can't assign copyright with code (like OpenJDK) that you don't own. So OpenJDK code can't be checked in to GNU Classpath. Andrew.