CC BY-SA licensed code snippet in openjdk9 repository?
Mario Torre
neugens.limasoftware at gmail.com
Mon Dec 5 11:19:29 UTC 2016
2016-12-05 12:16 GMT+01:00 Sebastian Baltes <s.baltes at uni-trier.de>:
> 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.
Sorry, I misread your previous mail, I though you wrote that the SO
author was the *same* author of the code in the snippet in OpenJDK.
Cheers,
Mario
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