OpenJDK Governing Board Minutes: 20011/4/21

[Fernando Cassia]

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes
<gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> Making it part of OpenJDK under the OCA also means contributing to Oracle's
> proprietary products and this is why I personally would not make any
> significant contribution
> of work (as in complete new features like Mario mentions, rather than
> fixes) to OpenJDK.

This is silly. It is like saying one would never contribute code to
Mozilla.org, because due to its original triple-licensing, your code
would end up being part (and it did) of Netscape´s propietary
products, Netscape 6.x - 7.1
based on the Mozilla.org open source code.

FC

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