OpenJDK/IcedTea naming patch

[Mark Reinhold]

> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:08:06 +0000
> From: Andrew John Hughes <gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org>

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> That's my reading of it too.  It's also why the Gentoo packaging uses
> IcedTea6.  Being source-based, it is unclear whether the resulting
> binary will meet the terms of the trademark license.

Good point.  IANAL (still) but since the notice doesn't make a
distinction between source and binary forms I suspect that it'd be
fine for Gentoo to use the mark in the same ways that other distros
do.  I'll ask an actual lawyer though.

> Of course, if we're talking accreditation again, it's not very fair
> not to use it on a CACAO build given most of the code is still the
> class libraries from OpenJDK (and anyone who's worked on GNU Classpath
> will know that these are much harder to replace).

Agree on the fairness angle, but I know a few HotSpot engineers who'd
argue with your parenthetical point.

> ...
> 
> I like this change, it seems to reach a happy medium.  I notice you
> also change the version template.  What is the value of the
> java.version property as a result?  The same as those listed above?

The value of java.version doesn't change; it's still set from
FULL_VERSION, as before, and the value of that make variable has
not changed.

- Mark