Brian Pomerantz wrote:
> It doesn't matter who did the work on it. Sun owns the rights to
> any work done to their JDK. When the Blackdown group sends patches
> back to Sun, Sun can do with those patches what they want, including
> give them to Inprise to do their own work.
Legally speaking, you're probably right.
But clearly, in this form, Sun will not make many friends in the
community.
I wonder where their strategy is heading and how they'll treat OSS in
the future.
I did what John did, and dropped them a mail
(mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Dear Sun,
>
> I am stunned by the form SunInpriseJDK1.2.2RC1 was announced.
>
> As you are certainly aware of, you are piggy-backing on the Blackdown
> code base. At the same time the announcement attempts to give the
> impression that this is a Linux port that has nothing to do with
> Blackdown. Despite the fact that Sun support for the Linux port has been
> minimal for a long time a lot has been achieved. Now you are taking
> advantage without giving them appropriate credits.
>
> This strategy is at least incomprehensible, if not plain cheap.
>
> Wolfgang Hoschek.
>
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Wolfgang.
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