I might have chosen to phrase it slightly differently, but yes IBM licenses the Sun code, so the sun.* packages in an IBM JRE come from the same original source (modulo any IBM applied changes).
Regards, Tim Alex Blewitt wrote: > On 14/08/06, Geir Magnusson Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> 3) Clearly there's value in providing these [sun.* classes], as other >> implementations >> (BEA, IBM, Apple) include them. > > Possibly true, but for different reasons. They license the source code > bulk from Sun, not re-implement their own. (They have patches etc. > that sit on top of them, of course.) As a result, there's a bunch of > internal stuff that is exactly the same as Sun's, and so depends on > the sun.* classes. > > The value (to them) is that they don't have to spend time re-writing > the sun.* classes instead of something else. There's no value > necessarily to the end user; it's a selfish decision on their part, > nothing more. > > Alex. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IBM Java technology centre, UK. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
