I have a contributor on our project (RDF4J) who has submitted a patch which
includes a modified copy of a method taken from the OpenJDK source code. It
mentions this fact in the code comments.
The method in question is quite basic (it's a conversion from codepoint integers
to chars, all in all about 15 lines of code). The modification of the original
is an optimization for our specific purposes (avoiding creation of a lot of
internal string arrays).
The OpenJDK source code is licensed under GPL, and as I understand its terms,
inclusion of a (modified) copy of GPL code would require us to distribute the
entire project under GPL (which is clearly not what we want).
So the question is: at which point does such a "modified copy" of GPL code
become significant enough that it no longer counts as simple 'citation'? Are
there allowances in the number of lines and/or the fundamental simplicity of the
algorithm that would enable us to accept this patch?
The contribution in question (including discussion) can be seen here:
https://github.com/eclipse/rdf4j/pull/571
Regards,
Jeen
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