Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jeff Higgins Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Is it legal to backport code from JDK8 to JDK6? Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 10:04:51 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 14:05:27 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="c50a9e5d554cfaba13eda1c71e805135"; logging-data="10588"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18PMYxAXOlXfA4xua1zbQKycoXIuk+vaOg=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.5.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:ebsyZFZntDUP4fnuJAHgfScYdNU= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:31411 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.