Rhino source code (Was: Rhino build support)

mark.reinhold at oracle.com mark.reinhold at oracle.com
Mon Oct 31 07:53:56 PDT 2011


2011/10/31 4:51 -0700, mark at klomp.org:
> This might have slipped through with all the excitement around JavaFX
> being liberated and all the new JEPs. But it would really help us if you
> could take a quick peek and point us in the right direction.
> 
> It would be good for us to make sure we all distribute the same
> javax.script javascript support, whether it is ClosedJDK, OpenJDK,
> IcedTea or the MacOSX port. Users probably would like to be sure it is
> all compatible and supports the same features.

Sundar -- Could you please summarize the changes you made to the Rhino
code when you last updated the copy used in the Oracle builds?  Thanks.

> Maybe it is already in the distribution legal notes somewhere, but we
> looked and cannot find it (maybe we looked in the wrong place). Assuming
> you are redistributing Rhino under the GPL/MPL there really should at
> least be a conspicuous notice stating where to find the modifications
> used to make the binary Oracle is distributing (MPL section 3.6 and/or
> GPL section 3).

That should be in the Oracle JDK 7 release notes, but I don't see it,
so I'll ask someone to take care of it.

- Mark



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