[Bug 100017] XML encoder can cause a StackOverflowError

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 10:51 Fri 22 Jan     , Joe Wang wrote:
> 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.

My name is on the list as a private person from before I joined Red Hat, but
Red Hat itself has a company SCA which covers both myself and Omair's work
for us as an intern.

>
> --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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