[Fedora-packaging] license for concurrent package

Matt Wringe mwringe at redhat.com
Wed Apr 4 19:38:06 UTC 2007


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?

> ~spot
> 
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