Policy regarding external / other licensed code?

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi Clemens,

On Sun, July 3, 2011 22:56, Clemens Eisserer wrote:
> The current cacio-web implementation uses quite a bit of external code:
> - Some keyboard-handling code from noVNC (with the permission of the
> author, licensed as LGPL)
> - Base64 encoder (licensed as BSD, LGPL, ...)
> - PngEncoder - LGPL
>
> What is the current policy regarding such external code?
> As far as I've seen external libraries code is not included in the
> mercurial tree, however what should I do in this case?

I tried to bring this up a couple of times, as there are some
external code bases in the repositories, but it is unclear how
new external code bases can be added. But as far as I know there
never has been a resolution to this issue. If you are blocked while
this is being resolved please feel free to request a repository
on icedtea.classpath.org. As long as what you want to hack on
is free software it can be hosted there for now. All the above
seems just fine.

Cheers,

Mark