Hi, Lance. Sorry I had to challenge you publicly on the list, but
I'm really worried that if we're not very careful we are going to paint
ourselves into a corner and we are going to have to fork Derby in order
to do a Java DB release.
I think we need the JCP lawyers (and it sounds like the ASF lawyers) to
weigh in on this question before we make any conclusions that could
cause us real trouble.
Thanks,
David
David Van Couvering wrote:
Lance J. Andersen wrote:
You cannot have a GA version of a JDBC 4 driver until JSR 221 goes final.
Are you *sure* you can't *have* a GA version, e.g the bits can't exist
somewhere, as long as they're not officially declared generally
available? If we can't even create the bits, then it is physically and
logically impossible for us to give anything to the JDK team for
integration.
Personally, I think we need to get clarification from the JCP folks on
this before we make any final conclusions about this.
Thanks,
David
