Hi, Simon,
On 7/4/2011 17:27, Simon Phipps wrote:
On 4 Jul 2011, at 18:01, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
If the Oracle grant (a license) applies to the code at a particular snapshot in
time, then I assume that changes to that code after that might not be covered
(however covered by the CLA to Oracle/Sun), and certainly anything which
involves additional files might not be covered.
While Oracle has expressed general goodwill, their grant at present is in the
form of an explicit list enumerating what files are covered. We almost
certainly need to monitor a build of 3.4 to see if that list of files includes
everything necessary. Whatever repo we run that build on:
* will include a mix of licensing until the grant from Oracle is updated,
* is open source so there are no restrictions on our actions
* is not intended for full release so doesn't break any Apache rules
As such it doesn't seem to matter much to my naive eyes whether we wait for the
SVN repo to be built, build from the existing Hg repo (assuming we've
sufficient access), or do it somewhere else.
I expect I am wrong though, I'm getting used to that :-)
S.
Without being able to view the private agreement, I'd like to mention a
couple of off-beat items which I hope are included:
1) UNOIDL - that is, the Unified Network Object Interface Description
Language compiler, which produces the content of api.oo.o, and the input
files.
2) The OpenSymbol font. The Math Engine (TeX-like) depends heavily on
it, and it may be used elsewhere in OO.o.
Hope I'm worrying over nothing.
--
/tj/
T. J. Frazier
Melbourne, FL
(TJFrazier on OO.o)
