[Fedora-packaging] license for concurrent package

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Fri Mar 30 13:20:30 UTC 2007


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.

~spot




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