RFR - JDK-8149776 - BSD license for jimage code

[Mario Torre]

2016-02-15 12:36 GMT+01:00 Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com>:
> 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.

Hi Alan,

A change in the License of the Project files should not be addressed
as a restricted bug report. We are not talking about a mistakenly
licensed test case or class file that is rightfully fixed back to the
proper license, we are talking about a total change in License.

As far as I can see, this is not even about dual licensing the files.

I'm not fine to the approval of license changes to the OpenJDK Project
without prior written notification from the Governing Board.

So as an OpenJDK Member I respectfully ask to bring this change to the
attention of the Governing Board.

Cheers,
Mario
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