OpenJDK Regression Test Harness (jtreg) - open source

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 02/05/2008, Jonathan Gibbons <Jonathan.Gibbons at sun.com> wrote:
> I'm pleased to announce that the OpenJDK Regression Test Harness, also known
> as jtreg, is now available with an open source license, instead of the
> earlier binary code license. jtreg now uses the open source version of Sun's
> JavaTest harness, called JT Harness [1]. Apart from the change to use JT
> Harness, and a few minor bug fixes, and a change in the version number, it
> is otherwise the same jtreg as before.
>
>  For now, the source is available in a source bundle, available from the
> OpenJDK jtreg pages [2].
>
>  Many thanks to all those on the OpenJDK, JT Harness and legal teams who
> worked to make this possible.
>
>  -- Jon
>
>  [1] http://jtharness.dev.java.net/
>  [2] http://openjdk.java.net/jtreg/
>
>

Just a quick comment on these pages:

On http://openjdk.java.net/jtreg/build.html it says the Java
Communications API 'is not available under Open Source'.  This
statement seems meaningless to me.  It should either be 'the source
code is not available', 'is not available under an OSI-approved
license' or 'is not available under a Free Software license',
depending on what the intended meaning is.  Being not available 'under
Open Source' implies there is some Open Source entity of which the API
is not a part, which seems like nonsense to me.

Other than that, thanks for releasing the source code to jtreg at last! :)
-- 
Andrew :-)

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