Re: Public domain packages ( was Re: [A4] release plan thoughts )

[Berin Loritsch]

Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:

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> Berin Loritsch wrote:
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>> Stephen McConnell wrote:
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>>> Also - what/where are the license details related to the Concurrency package?
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>> Public domain. (I.e. no license, no control).
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> Hmmm...
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> I don't think we can use packages with no license at all. IANAL, but wouldn't it mean that no license == no grant of use? But actually it's in the public domain, so it would be ridiculous that the author doesn't it want to be used.
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> Can we rely on public domain packages and put them in CVS?
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Ok. Maybe you are missunderstanding. On the site, they are explicitly
public domain. In the copyright law classes that I took in college it
basically means that the author retains no rights on the code, which
also means we can change it, distribute it, or even repackage it with
our own name--even though the last one is unethical. There is
absolutely no legal recourse the original author has because he is not
retaining that right.

To be honest, this is one of the best packages for thread control. All
of this work will be incorporated into JDK 1.5.

Each public domain package has to be evaluated on its own merit. We
have full rights to be able to put public domain packages in CVS, on
a high volume distribution server, or to hand out on CDs.



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