[Fedora-packaging] license for concurrent package

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 15:38 -0400, Matt Wringe wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 08:20 -0500, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 22:08 -0400, Permaine Cheung wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > The concurrent package in core has stated the following (under the Notes 
> > > section of its URL
> > > http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/classes/EDU/oswego/cs/dl/util/concurrent/intro.html): 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 'All classes are released to the public domain and may be used for any 
> > > purpose whatsoever without permission or acknowledgment. Portions of the 
> > > CopyOnWriteArrayList and ConcurrentReaderHashMap classes are adapted 
> > > from Sun JDK source code. These are copyright of Sun Microsystems, Inc, 
> > > and are used with their kind permission,' (link is 
> > > http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/classes/EDU/oswego/cs/dl/util/sun-u.c.license.pdf) 
> > > 
> > > And further down from that page it states:
> > > 'Do I need a license to use it? Can I get one? No!'
> > > 
> > > Is this okay?
> > 
> > Yes. Public Domain is acceptable.
> Right, but is it really public domain with respect to those two other
> files?

That license is just BSD, it doesn't affect the rest of the code. It's
still ok.

~spot