JDK 7 Updates: Policy Changes

[Andrew Haley]

On 07/07/15 23:37, Volker Simonis wrote:
> But there's one more thing to consider here: I don't know what patches you
> have in IcedTea but merging them into the OpenJDK jdk7u-dev forest can only
> be done under the Oracle Contribution Agreement. So if you should have any
> patches in IcedTea for which you do not have the permission to submit them
> under the OCA into the OpenJDK forest that would be problematic.

I don't think that's a real problem because all patches have to be reviewed
and as part of that process we will look at the author's OCA status.

Andrew.