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Re: Is it legal to backport code from JDK8 to JDK6?

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From Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid>
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Subject Re: Is it legal to backport code from JDK8 to JDK6?
Date Mon, 30 Mar 2015 10:04:51 -0400
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On 03/30/2015 07:37 AM, Haddock wrote:
> Hello,
>
> JDK8 has some new class LinkedTransferQueue which has much better performance than LinkedBlockingQueue. For various reasons I can't change to JDK8. So I would like to backport the JDK8 LinkedTransferQueue to JDK6. My question is whether there could be any legal problem with that or whether that is fine. I'm working on some open source application. So all code would be open and therefore the mater could become an issue.
>
Here, in comp.lang.java.programmer,
you might expect some technical discussion of such a backport.

If I were a lawyer reading this post and considering a response,
I'd be asking my lawyer about the ramifications of participating
in legal discussions on Usenet.

<http://www.cobar.org/index.cfm/ID/0/subID/4820/May-an-attorney-ethically-participate-in-real-time-%22chat%22-forums,-list-server-discussions-and-Usenet/>

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Is it legal to backport code from JDK8 to JDK6? Haddock <ffm2002@web.de> - 2015-03-30 04:37 -0700
  Re: Is it legal to backport code from JDK8 to JDK6? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-03-30 10:04 -0400
  Re: Is it legal to backport code from JDK8 to JDK6? Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2015-03-30 18:43 +0200
  Re: Is it legal to backport code from JDK8 to JDK6? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-03-30 14:06 -0400
    Re: Is it legal to backport code from JDK8 to JDK6? Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2015-03-30 20:37 +0200
    Re: Is it legal to backport code from JDK8 to JDK6? Fredrik Jonson <fredrik@jonson.org> - 2015-03-31 15:58 +0000
  Re: Is it legal to backport code from JDK8 to JDK6? Sebastian <news@seyweiler.dyndns.org> - 2015-03-30 20:47 +0200
    Re: Is it legal to backport code from JDK8 to JDK6? Fredrik Jonson <fredrik@jonson.org> - 2015-03-31 16:20 +0000
      Re: Is it legal to backport code from JDK8 to JDK6? Sebastian <news@seyweiler.dyndns.org> - 2015-03-31 23:02 +0200
  Re: Is it legal to backport code from JDK8 to JDK6? Haddock <ffm2002@web.de> - 2015-04-01 11:33 -0700

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