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| From | Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: Is it legal to backport code from JDK8 to JDK6? |
| Date | 2015-03-30 20:37 +0200 |
| Organization | albasani.net |
| Message-ID | <mfc556$8so$1@news.albasani.net> (permalink) |
| References | <a296b442-cdae-4283-9383-52a7712d9e8b@googlegroups.com> <mfc38r$al3$1@dont-email.me> |
Eric Sosman schrieb: > Written by Doug Lea with assistance from members of JCP JSR-166 > Expert Group and released to the public domain, as explained at > http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ I assume what Doug Lea and collegues hacked wasn't invented just now, has some prior art. So I guess if somebody hacks a compatibility library out of the java.* and javax.* path, nothing will happen. Except that the use of this library is clumsy, since the java.* and javax.* path restriction don't make it really a backward compatibility library, so that the same client code can be used with the old JDK and the new JDK. Maybe if the client code uses some factory pattern, the use of the library is less clumsy. But still, it will be a mess. So best is replace the bootloader with the java.* restriction as well. He He. I guess I need to phone my lawyer now. Bye P.S.: Or on the other hand, convince your shop not to use old JDK anymore and use the new JDK, probably cheapest solution. P.P.S.: Patching the bootloader seems to be possible: Replacing and Patching Core Java Classes http://media.techtarget.com/tss/static/articles/content/CovertJava/Sams-CovertJava-15.pdf
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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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