Re: org.omg

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi,

On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 06:49, Brian Jones wrote:
> Sun includes a number of classes from the org.omg package that appear
> to be freely available (but lacking the javadoc) from
> ftp.omg.org/pub/javartf/.  The license is as below.
> 
> Copyright (c) 1999 Object Management Group. Unlimited rights to 
> duplicate and use this code are hereby granted provided that this 
> copyright notice is included.

Note that this does not give explicit permission to make and distribute
changes (like fixing bugs, adding javadoc, removing unneeded classes,
etc). Or is the is above legal language to say just that?

> This is essentially the same as the license on the code in w_log.c for
> example.  Should we go ahead and import the appropriate pieces of code
> from OMG?

I would only import it if needed to implements some of the other core
classes or if you are intending to work on them, for example to add the
documentation. If not, then I would just add a link to the documentation
explaining where to find these (and probably other) standard classes
that we don't distribute.

Cheers,

Mark