[fedora-java] Including classes from Sun's demo code in a Fedora package

[Mary Ellen Foster]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp.org> wrote:
> That ElementTreePanel.java is in the demo package, but hidden inside a
> zip file:
> /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0.*/demo/jfc/Notepad/src.zip
>
> It comes under a modern BSD-license (without nuclear clause, hurray!)
> But ExampleFileFilter.java indeed isn't part of the package
> unfortunately.

Oh. That's cool! So what should the package submitter do, then? If he
just copies the new ExampleTreePanel into the source of his package
replacing the included one, is that kosher?

ExampleFileFilter is not a big issue because JDK 1.6 now includes a
nearly-equivalent FileNameExtensionFilter class anyway.

MEF

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Mary Ellen Foster  --  http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mef/
Informatik 6: Robotics and Embedded Systems, Technische Universität München
and ICCS, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh