splashscreen.so is missing pnggccrd.c

Dalibor Topic Dalibor.Topic at Sun.COM
Thu Aug 28 19:14:27 UTC 2008


On 28.08.08 19:41, Mark Wielaard wrote:
>  Embedding
> the sources seem a bit fragile and apparently hard to update inside
> openjdk because of sun legal issues.
>   

There is a legal review process associated with dragging in new external 
code, just like
there is a process for that at the FSF - but it is necessarily not as 
lightweight as [1].

cheers,
dalibor topic

[1] 
http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/External-Libraries.html#External-Libraries

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