I am not a lawyer, and I didn't look too closely, but from reading the Sun Java 6 licence, it looks pretty clear to me that you can NOT use their code in the way you want.
You may be able to use the OpenJDK source instead. You'd have to dig in to it to work out what the licence for just the regular expressions part is, but most of the OpenJDK is GPL. You'd probably be better off taking the Jakarta Regexp code instead: http://jakarta.apache.org/regexp/index.html This is released under an apache licence, and so you could create a GWT regexp library based on that and release it under an apache licence that anybody could use without any legal problems or onerous restrictions. This implementation doesn't use the same API as JDK regular expressions, but does appear to offer the same facilities. (I have not used it) HTH Paul Dunlord wrote: > For a Open Source project I'm working on I needed the > java.util.regex.Matcher (and so the java.util.regex.Pattern) classes, > in the client side. They are not in the GWT JRE emulation library, but > the source code for both classes are published by SUN (I'm not sure if > under the GPL). > > So I copy-pasted the source code of both clases (and a bunch of clases > they needed), cleaned them to work in gwt's client side and it all > worked wonderfully. > > The question is: SUN's JRE source code licensing allows me to do this > and publish it? And under which license? And as a bonus: What I'm > allowed to do with it (or not allowed to do)? > > Thankyou > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
