Bringing in an updated version is fairly lightweight.
I recently did this for a fontconfig header file.
There's a web-based form where you fill in the info, confirming the
license hasn't changed, and it gets a short review by a lawyer
and that's about it. Filling in the form takes about 20 mins max.
Most of the time is waiting for a lawyer to be assigned and approve it.
A little under 6 days elapsed time for me from submission to approval.
-phil.
Dalibor Topic wrote:
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
