Hi Mark, > > I don't think it's Sun only policy, pretty much any company has it. > > It is easy to become tainted by looking at other's people code. > > The fact that the code is open-source doesn't matter, since > > it's a question of copyright. > > Note that the copyright isn't in question in this case since it all comes from > GNU Classpath. It is exactly the same as OpenJDK is already using (GPL + > classpath) and you can be sure that the FSF made sure sure all that code is as > clean as can be. They are kind of pedantic about that :)
Yeah, but it's still copyrighted by the FSF. I think this is the problem. It really doesn't matter from a legal POV if the license is the same. License != copyright owner. Copying FSF code would be copyright infringing, regardless of the actual license. Yes it is a good learning exercide trying to defend 'the other side' ;-) /Roman -- Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Roman Kennke, Software Engineer, http://kennke.org aicas Allerton Interworks Computer Automated Systems GmbH Haid-und-Neu-Straße 18 * D-76131 Karlsruhe * Germany http://www.aicas.com * Tel: +49-721-663 968-0 USt-Id: DE216375633, Handelsregister HRB 109481, AG Karlsruhe Geschäftsführer: Dr. James J. Hunt
