Dimitry, No, Dimitry, it doesn't matter what the size is. If it bears the Sun copyright, you cannot use it without their permission and it will taint the entire project. As you said, it's a small class, it shouldn't be hard to rewrite it such that it no longer infringes. But you can't just remove someone's copyright and use their code.
While it's unlikely that anything bad would happen, legally, there are quite a few people who would get very upset about this. It's not worth the grief. It would also, I believe, result in us losing our ability to use SourceForge as a host. Ray Dimitry Polivaev wrote: > Hi Ray, > > I have certainly included the URL in the comment. But if you look in the > zip file > > http://blogs.sun.com/nickstephen/resource/redirecting_stdout/src.zip > > you find out that StdOutErrLevel.java seems to come from sun examples > and carries a proprietary sun license. But I have found no over > occurences of the class in web and think that we can use it anyway > because of its small size. > > Dimitry > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Freemind-developer mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freemind-developer > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freemind-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freemind-developer
