On 28.08.08 19:41, Mark Wielaard wrote:
 Embedding
the sources seem a bit fragile and apparently hard to update inside
openjdk because of sun legal issues.

There is a legal review process associated with dragging in new external code, just like there is a process for that at the FSF - but it is necessarily not as lightweight as [1].

cheers,
dalibor topic

[1] http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/External-Libraries.html#External-Libraries

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