On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Mark Wielaard wrote: > On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 22:15 -0800, Michael Allman wrote: >> On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Dalibor Topic wrote: >> >>> Michael Allman wrote: >>>> Does the BSD jdk port accept code contributions from non-copyright >>>> holders? >>> >>> It follows the same rule 0 as the rest of the project: >>> http://openjdk.java.net/contribute/ >>> >>> i.e. your patch needs to come in under SCA. >> >> Wasn't sure. Thanks for the clarification. > > If you need to we can setup a repository at icedtea to hold any > trees/patches that people cannot assign to Sun. > >>>> For example, GNU classpath has a kqueue-based selector implementation. >>>> Can we "steal" that? >>> >>> No. But you can ask Casey and his coauthors if they are interested >>> in contributing the implementation, of course. >> >> Already did. He forfeited his copyright. FSF owns the code now. > > The FSF does give a grant back of the rights Sun demands in their SCA, > so in theory (if someone is the sole contributor of such code) all these > rights can then also be transferred to Sun if they refuse to accept the > code as is under the GPL and the original hacker wants to do that.
This might be a moot point. Another hacker by the name of Pieter de Goeje is implementing his own kqueue-based selector implementation for FreeBSD. Dalibor Topic clued me in to this. See http://old.nabble.com/OpenJDK-6-7-kqueue-based-NIO-provider-td27385917.html I sent him an e-mail asking him if he wants to donate his code to OpenJDK. If so, we're cool. Cheers, Michael
