[Bug 100017] XML encoder can cause a StackOverflowError

[Joe Wang]

Joe Wang wrote:
> Mark,
>
> Thanks for the comment.  Since JAXP itself is an open source project, 
> this fix was done in JAXP and then integrated into JDK7. In JAXP, I 
> kept the Red Hat Copyright header and noted that it was contributed by 
> Omair Majid who originally created the bug report. I did add GNU+CDDL 
> license header which I will remove from the jaxp project. This test 
> has not been integrated into OpenJDK. I'll pass the comment to SQE who 
> would be responsible for integrating tests.
>
> During a discussion for 100123, I was told I could not use the 
> patch/test unless the contributor has signed the SCA. I'll check with 
> legal again on this.
>
> Andrew:  have you or Omair signed the SCA?
I answer to myself :)  Andrew, I see your name on the list, but not Omair.

--Joe
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
>
> Mark Wielaard wrote:
>> Hi Joe,
>>
>> On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 15:59 -0800, Joe Darcy wrote:
>>   
>>> Note that at the moment the license header of the test files says 
>>> "Copyright 2009 Red Hat" but later states "Please contact Sun 
>>> Microsystems ... if you need additional information or have any 
>>> questions."  If this goes upstream, the copyright holder should be 
>>> changed to Sun.
>>>     
>>
>> Just for the record, as Mark Reinhold previously stated you must never
>> remove copyright notices. Contributors keep the copyright over their
>> code. You can only add an extra copyright notice. Mark explains when: 
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7-dev/2009-June/000716.html
>> (Of course if contributed through the SCA, Sun then gets all the rights
>> from the copyright owner to license and redistribute the code under the
>> GPL.)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>   
>

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