Virtual Extension By Inversion of Responsibility (Second Draft)

[Neal Gafter]

The principle sounds fine, but the mailing list is useful in that it
provides a permanent record.  Postings on web sites change over time,
and that makes it hard to make sense of the flow of this discussion.
I therefore request that we all, please, post our proposals here.

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Alex Buckley <alex.buckley at oracle.com> wrote:
> The principle is that non-source code submissions to Oracle need to be
> licensed appropriately to Oracle by the submitter.
>
> For an individual who is not otherwise involved in an OpenJDK project, the
> most direct way to submit material while respecting the principle is simply
> to put the text in a mail to an OpenJDK list. Linking to non-OpenJDK web
> sites or lists is insufficient.
>
> An individual who is already involved with OpenJDK such that they can post
> material on openjdk.java.net, can simply post it there. lambda-dev
> discussions about that material would be fine even without the text
> appearing on lambda-dev.
>
> Alex
>
> On 6/18/2010 5:42 PM, Neal Gafter wrote:
>>
>> Alex-
>>
>> Can we please apply this principle to all participants?
>>
>> -Neal
>>
>> On Jun 18, 2010, at 11:58 AM, Alex Buckley <alex.buckley at oracle.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Collin,
>>>
>>> If lambda-dev is to discuss your proposal, you will need to send the text
>>> of the proposal to lambda-dev, rather than pointing to an external site.
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Alex
>>>
>>> On 6/17/2010 8:09 PM, Collin Fagan wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I've put together a second draft of my proposal for virtual extension
>>>> methods.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.box.net/shared/r24vvgma5p
>>>>
>>>> And yes *this* time they are really virtual. I welcome all comments.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Collin
>>>>
>