splashscreen.so is missing pnggccrd.c

Phil Race Phil.Race at Sun.COM
Thu Aug 28 12:27:11 PDT 2008


Bringing in an updated version is fairly lightweight.
I recently did this for a fontconfig header file.
There's a web-based form where you fill in the info, confirming the
license hasn't changed, and it gets a short review by a lawyer
and that's about it. Filling in the form takes about 20 mins max.
Most of the time is waiting for a lawyer to be assigned and approve it.
A little under 6 days elapsed time for me from submission to approval.

-phil.

Dalibor Topic wrote:
> On 28.08.08 19:41, Mark Wielaard wrote:
>>  Embedding
>> the sources seem a bit fragile and apparently hard to update inside
>> openjdk because of sun legal issues.
>>   
> 
> There is a legal review process associated with dragging in new external 
> code, just like
> there is a process for that at the FSF - but it is necessarily not as 
> lightweight as [1].
> 
> cheers,
> dalibor topic
> 
> [1] 
> http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/External-Libraries.html#External-Libraries 
> 
> 



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