Hi,
I have got a sort of legal question regarding resource bundles.
OpenJDK offers internationalized resources for quite a number of
languages, but there are more languages out there :)
Now let's imagine an application programmer who writes a commercial
application to be used with some unsupported human language. There is no
problem for this programmer to create localized resources for all the
stuff of his own. But what can one do with standard dialogs?
All the standard messages in English are available in the OpenJDK, and
there is no big deal in translating them into any other language. So our
programmer might do his job by creating a new resource bundle and adding
it to his application, but:
- Oracle BCL explicitly prohibits adding anything to packages starting
with"sun", "java", etc
- OpenJDK is issued under GPLv2+CE, and classpath exception is said to
be only applicable to files that mention this exception in their header,
and none of the resource bundle files seem to mention this exception.
So the only legal option for this developer is to add his new resource
to OpenJDK sources and make a customized OpenJDK build of his own. And
then distribute this customized build along with his application to make
users happy... Looks legal, but slightly insane imho... :)
So is anything wrong in my narration?
What is the intended approach for the application programmers to follow
to get standard dialogs localized per their needs?
Any comments are most welcome...
Regards,
Sergey Ushakov
