From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11950 invoked by alias); 14 Mar 2012 10:40:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 11940 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Mar 2012 10:40:54 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-we0-f175.google.com (HELO mail-we0-f175.google.com) (74.125.82.175) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:40:41 +0000 Received: by wera1 with SMTP id a1so1738109wer.20 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 03:40:40 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.84.164 with SMTP id a4mr5166563wiz.2.1331721639865; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 03:40:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.162.66 with HTTP; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 03:40:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:40:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Which library implementation to use/work on? From: Mike Hearn To: java@gcc.gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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/msg00042.txt.bz2 Thanks (sorry for the broken threading, I'm subscribed now). I understand the reasons for this policy. However, as you are planning on (eventually) replacing Classpath with OpenJDK completely, an exception in this case would seem to make logical sense. The code will end up not owned by the FSF no matter what.