On 11/06/2010, Kristian Rosenvold <kristian.rosenv...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a memoizer > (http://www.javaconcurrencyinpractice.com/listings/Memoizer.java) that > I'd like to include "somewhere" in our code base. It's like 30 lines of > code or so. > > Ï've seen this snippet of code (or extremely minor permutations of it) > appear a number of places, under various lisence headers, for instance: > > > http://www.koders.com/java/fid960BDFDD3A35D42E6652E79BA3F959A375024F0B.aspx?s=mdef%3Acompute > > > What's the appropriate thing to do IP-wise wrt including such a piece of > code ? The specific implementation I've linked to appears on page 108 of > the "Java Concurrency in practice" book.
If you want to include this in ASF code, then IMO this question should be asked on the ASF legal-discuss list. Note: the covering description page [1] for the code says <quote> Written by Brian Goetz and Tim Peierls with assistance from members of JCP JSR-166 Expert Group and released to the public domain, as explained at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain </quote> > This is a *real hard* piece of code to get right, so I'm not about to > write my own. +1 to that! [1] http://www.javaconcurrencyinpractice.com/listings.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org