On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 5:13 PM, Dmitriy Setrakyan <dsetrak...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Justin, > > These are a few files back-ported directly from OpenJdk v8 code into > Ignite. For example, you can find the same file in OpenJDK here: > http://grepcode.com/file/repository.grepcode.com/java/root/jdk/openjdk/8-b132/java/util/concurrent/ConcurrentHashMap.java > > This question had already come up during the PPMC vote. We concluded that > these files are safe because they are dual-licensed, as they have also been > officially donated to the public domain. All these files have this comment > in the header: > ------- > /* > * This file is available under and governed by the GNU General Public > * License version 2 only, as published by the Free Software Foundation. > * However, the following notice accompanied the original version of this > * file: > * > * Written by Doug Lea with assistance from members of JCP JSR-166 > * Expert Group and released to the public domain, as explained at > * http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ > */ > -------- > > Please let me know if you still see an issue here.
It sounds like the current version consists of GPL modifications layered on top of a public domain original. If that's accurate, then the original public domain version would be kosher, but the current versions with GPL mods would not be. Marvin Humphrey --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
