Friday October 29, 2010

Read Beyond the Headers

Recent reports on various blogs have attributed to the ASF a number of the source files identified by Oracle as ones that they believe infringe on their copyrights. The code in question has an header that mentions Apache, and perhaps that is the source of the confusion. The code itself is using a license that is named after our foundation, is in fact the license that we ourselves use. Many others use it too, as the license was explicitly designed to allow such uses.

Even though the code in question has an Apache license, it is not part of Harmony. PolicyNodeImpl.java is simply not a Harmony class.

Verifying that something is from the Apache Software Foundation is very easy to do: our sources are all posted online. So it is sad when people don't take that step.

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Posted at 12:40PM Oct 29, 2010 by Sally in General | |