On 29 November 2010 08:22, Mark Wielaard <m...@klomp.org> wrote: > On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 20:06 -0800, Erik Trimble wrote: >> Oh, and a corporate plug here: if you buy an Oracle support contract >> for the JDK, you get access to all builds and the special "secret sauce" >> source code, including for all Updates. >> >> So, open that wallet, and dump out the contents... > > Do you mean that by getting a support contract for the JDK you will then > get access to this source code under free terms? So it will then be > possible to add this source code to OpenJDK and/or redistribute it under > the GPL? That would be awesome! Then those who contribute to the OpenJDK > community source code can share as equals. If so, then maybe we should > see if we can raise some money to get access to such a support contract > to liberate the last remaining binary plugs. >
I don't think so. It sounds more like an insidious attempt to get more people working on (and tainted by) the proprietary code base and hardly appropriate for the OpenJDK mailing lists. > Thanks, > > Mark > > -- Andrew :-) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and the OpenJDK http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://openjdk.java.net PGP Key: 94EFD9D8 (http://subkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: F8EF F1EA 401E 2E60 15FA 7927 142C 2591 94EF D9D8
