CC BY-SA licensed code snippet in openjdk9 repository?

[Sebastian Baltes]

Could you please elaborate on that?

The author of the snippet is not the committer of the code. And as far
as I know, aioobe was not aware that his code from Stack Overflow is
being used in openjdk. So the code has obviously been copied from Stack
Overflow into openjdk and thus, in my opinion, the Stack Overflow
license applies here.

Best regards,
Sebastian



On 05.12.2016 12:04, Mario Torre wrote:
> 2016-12-05 11:23 GMT+01:00 Sebastian Baltes <s.baltes at uni-trier.de>:
>> I'm not a lawyer, but maybe it would be a good idea to replace the
>> method humanReadableByteCount with a re-implementation. We are working
>> on a tool to search for duplicates of non-trivial code snippets from
>> Stack Overflow on a larger scale, because we currently only search for
>> ten popular Java snippets. If you are interested, I can have a closer
>> look at the openjdk repo and report the result here.
> 
> 
> IANAL, but it's the same author, so I don't see a problem.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mario
>