From: Godmar Back (gback@cs.utah.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 11 1999 - 11:39:51 EST
>
> > So let me get this straight - if you contribute code to us you
> > cannot contribute that code to classpath? Why is this - is this the
> > copyright nonsense they insist on?
>
> I think so, but I'm not a lawyer, nor am I a specialist in U.S. law,
> so I'm not 100% sure about the rights you retain when you assign
> copyright of a piece of code to the FSF. I'd have to ask RMS, or you
> could ask the TVT lawyer (I believe there is one, isn't there?) about
> that.
See http://www.cs.utah.edu/~gback/fsf/
for copies of the assignment contracts Aaron Renn sent me.
>
> > A minor legal point, but since we've not a licensee of sun we can put stuff
> > wherever we choose - even in sun.tools.jar if we wanted.
>
> That's good news. Then we can implement the Byte<->Char converters
> within sun.io and be able to run Hotjava and other applications that
> use them!
>
The sun.io stuff is the minor part of the problem.
I'd already worked around that. The big part is their use of
stuff in sun.io that requires native methods.
Besides, hotjava is dead anyway.
- Godmar
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