2009/1/5 Tim Ellison <[email protected]>: > Hi Andrew, > > Andrew John Hughes wrote: >> Is there any news on Sun contributing back their 1.6 TreeMap to the >> Harmony community? >> >> http://blogs.sun.com/dagastine/entry/apache_harmony_thanks_for_the > > No news here -- I suggest asking Dave directly. >
Thanks - I will. I thought I better just check first as I've not been tracking Harmony development and I'd look a bit dumb in the rare event it had been committed three months ago... > But I'm not holding my breath... > > http://tellison.blogspot.com/2008/12/bops-tree-hugging-and-safe-wagers.html > Seems par for the course with Sun these days. Now they've had their media coverage, the big guns don't seem interested in actually doing the work on Free Java. Of course, there are lots of great developers working there who want things to move forward (like Dave I presume, from his original comments) but are being stopped by management presumably. There have been similar issues with releasing their plugin and JavaFX will probably go the same way. Interestingly, I do wonder if they can even use this work in OpenJDK, given the Apache v2 license and GPLv2 are incompatible. The Classpath exception only helps when it comes to wanting to write proprietary Java programs and run them on OpenJDK (at least, that's my reading - IANAL). > Regards, > Tim > -- Andrew :-) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and the OpenJDK http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://openjdk.java.net PGP Key: 94EFD9D8 (http://subkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: F8EF F1EA 401E 2E60 15FA 7927 142C 2591 94EF D9D8
