Re: Red Hat, Sun finally buddy up on Java

Hunter Gratzner wrote:
> Nothing to wonder about. This is about IcedTea, RedHat's fork of
> OpenJDK. RedHat forked this (claiming it is no fork) because Sun made
> it impossible to contribute back to OpenJDK in bulk. IcedTea merged
> parts of Classpath into OpenJDK to get an unen***bered, clean free
> software Java. These changes couldn't be put back into OpenJDK,
> because Sun had wrapped OpenJDK in a bunch of red tape. Only
> individuals, singing a contributor agreement, could get stuff into
> OpenJDK. Now RH got a cor****ate contributor agreement. So RH can now
> put IcedTea changes back into OpenJDK. This is Sun's venue to finally
> get Classpath code into OpenJDK. Sun is very cautious about code
> contributed to any of their open source projects, fearing poisoning
> with non-free code. Now they have someone (RedHat) signing for that
> code and taking responsibility.

SUN is not the only one with strict contribution policies.

Apache example:
   http://harmony.apache.org/auth_cont_quest.html
   http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt
   http://www.apache.org/licenses/cla-cor****ate.txt

Arne