7045697: JDK7 THIRD PARTY README update

[Andrew John Hughes]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:04:46AM -0700, Jeff Dinkins wrote:
> 
> Hi Andrew - sorry for the late response,
> 
> Looking at the ECC text, I agree that it's confusing - we're going to work on getting it tidied up.
> 
> > The above also speaks about removing binaries.  I didn't think binaries were
> > allowed in the OpenJDK source trees?  I also didn't realise we were receiving
> > any 'Oracle programs'.
> 
> This only applies to the Oracle products (JRE 7, JDK 7), not OpenJDK. I'll work with the right people to update the text to be clearer.

Ah, I was wondering if that was the case!  It makes a lot more sense now.

> 
> Likewise I'll see if we can rework the verbiage about "the Oracle license" and "Oracle programs".
> 
> As Kelly mentioned, in the past managing the TPRM has raised some questions, evidenced by some bugs such as in [1], and this was an effort to address some of that in parallel with some other general updates.

Yeah, I noticed one of these was from us... ;-)  That bit I'm familiar with.

> 
> We realize based on your questions/concerns we didn't get it quite right and need to rework this (in the open) to get it exactly right.  Apologies, and thanks!
> 

Thanks for listening to our feedback.  Much appreciated.

> [1] http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138
> 
> 
> On Jul 12, 2011, at 6:34 AM, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 12:40:43PM +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> Sorry for the late response, but I just stumbled upon:
> >>> hg: jdk7/tl: 7045697: JDK7 THIRD PARTY README update
> >>> Changeset: 93d2590fd849
> >>> Author:    jeff
> >>> Date:      2011-05-27 14:57 -0700
> >>> URL:       http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/tl/rev/93d2590fd849
> >>> 
> >>> 7045697: JDK7 THIRD PARTY README update
> >>> Reviewed-by: lana
> >>> 
> >>> ! THIRD_PARTY_README
> >> 
> >> Since this is a license update I wanted to double check, but the change
> >> diff is somewhat hard to read. Sadly I couldn't find the mailinglist
> >> this was discussed on, nor does the referenced bug report make clear
> >> what exactly was fixed/changed. Could someone summarize the legal
> >> updates, or point me to the correct mailing list archive discussion on
> >> this changeset?
> >> 
> > 
> > I also couldn't find any discussion on this either, and two of the
> > dependent bugs are not visible.  Of particular concern is:
> > 
> > +
> > +%% This notice is provided with respect to Elliptic Curve Cryptography, which
> > +is included with JRE 7, JDK 7, and OpenJDK 7.
> > +
> > +You are receiving a copy of the Elliptic Curve Cryptography library in source
> > +form with the JDK 7 source distribution and object code in the JRE 7 & JDK 7
> > +runtime.
> > +
> > +The terms of the Oracle license do NOT apply to the Elliptic Curve
> > +Cryptography library program; it is licensed under the following license,
> > +separately from the Oracle programs you receive. If you do not wish to install
> > +this program, you may delete the library named libsunec.so (on Solaris and
> > +Linux systems) or sunec.dll (on Windows systems) from the JRE bin directory
> > +reserved for native libraries. 
> > 
> > It is not completely clear that the 'Oracle license' is the lesser GPL 2.1
> > that appears below; is this the case and could this not be stated explicitly
> > in the text?
> > 
> > The above also speaks about removing binaries.  I didn't think binaries were
> > allowed in the OpenJDK source trees?  I also didn't realise we were receiving
> > any 'Oracle programs'.
> > 
> >> Thanks,
> >> 
> >> Mark
> > 
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