RFR - JDK-8149776 - BSD license for jimage code

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Mon Feb 15 14:57:36 UTC 2016


On 02/15/2016 02:39 PM, James Laskey wrote:

> The "restricted bug report" was totally a green horn error made by
> me, the author of the code.  I wanted to track the end of process
> approval for the licensing change by Oracle in the bug and marked it
> as confidential since it was an internal comment. Mark will likely
> address your concerns when available, but this was purely an error
> on my part.

Fair enough.  But "Allow more liberal use of jimage native code" isn't
really the sort of justification which will suffice for such a change.

Andrew.




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