[Bug 100017] XML encoder can cause a StackOverflowError

[Joseph D. Darcy]

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.)
>   

My misstatement, yes the Red Hat copyright should be preserved.

Thanks for the correction,

-Joe