RFR - JDK-8149776 - BSD license for jimage code

[Alan Bateman]

On 15/02/2016 11:03, Mario Torre wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> I wanted to comment on that too, but Andrew beat me. Anyway this
> answer doesn't really tell anything useful and I would like some more context.
>
> I understand that Oracle *may* have the rights to change licensing at
> any time due to the OCA (although my assumption is more that Oracle
> has the right to dual license the code, not arbitrarily change it),
> but any change should be communicated in advance and perhaps
> discussed. I actually expect such change to be discussed by the legal
> body that drives OpenJDK development, not something trivially done
> with a secret bug report.
>
> In this case we are relaxing the licensing restriction may seem a
> generous and innocent change, and we could be fine with that, but
> again I still question the method used, an after the fact commit
> referencing a non accessible bug.
>
Jim has fixed the JBS issue, it should not have been created as a 
restricted issue. To my knowledge, the due diligence has been done.

-Alan