Re: [ jEdit-devel ] we can pull code from openjdk

These licensing rules are not fully understood by me, but here's a link 
I forgot to include: GPL compatibility matrix:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#gpl-compat-matrix

Jarek Czekalski pisze:
> Hello
>
> OpenJDK (http://openjdk.java.net) is open source Java Development Kit. 
> Most of its code is licensed under GPL2 (2 only!). I see our code is 
> licensed under GPL 2 or later. So these licensed are compatible in a 
> way, that openjdk code can be included in our code.
>
> Lately I was wondering about incorporating parts of openJDK into jedit. 
> I meant pieces doing native2ascii conversion in both directions. I 
> probably won't do it, because I think it won't be useful for preparing 
> our "java escaped unicode" encoding, but for future: would you accept 
> such inclusions?
>
> I can't find an easy way to browse the code online on their site. I just 
> downloaded whole source (JDK6 is 40MB) and digged in it. Here is a 
> sample link providing online browsing, but it's from outside of openjdk 
> site:
> http://www.java2s.com/Open-Source/Java-Document/6.0-JDK-Modules-sun/tools/Catalogtools.htm
>
> Jarek
>
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