Comments for Mark J. Wielaard

Comment on Java bug CVE-2012-4681 by lechu

lechu — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 23:24:43 +0000

What about debian squeezy and opendjdk whitout icedtea?

Comment on Java bug CVE-2012-4681 by Pavel Tišnovský

Pavel Tišnovský — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:50:32 +0000

Thanks Mark for the great summary!

Comment on Java bug CVE-2012-4681 by kiakli

kiakli — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 09:57:27 +0000

Hi,
SELinux is not a good option in this case? To stop a possible attack…

Comment on Justice – APIs are not subject to copyright protection by Clemens Eisserer

Clemens Eisserer — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 17:07:11 +0000

Basically this means the unclear situations of WINE and Mono are also clarified.

Comment on Automagically merging ChangeLog files with mercurial or git by Mark Wielaard

Mark Wielaard — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:16:36 +0000

Maybe, if commit message do contain the same information as the ChangeLog entries. Which isn’t the case in some projects. And sometimes sources are distributed separate from the VCS, then having a ChangeLog file is handy. There are also other tools to generate ChangeLog files from various CVS commit messages. But some projects do have ChangeLog files. And in that case having automatic ChangeLog entry merging is pretty convenient.

Comment on Automagically merging ChangeLog files with mercurial or git by Kamil Páral

Kamil Páral — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 12:59:47 +0000

There’s actually no point in having ChangeLog file anymore. Since the invention of VCS that file is useless.

Comment on IcedTea and OpenJDK now part of OIN by JonCB

JonCB — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 03:58:53 +0000

But isn’t the point of patents that it doesn’t matter what the product is?

It doesn’t matter if you’re building Java, Dalvik, GCC or Lisp. If Patent Troll T can show that you use a “system and method” that they’ve patented then lawsuits can follow. And by the same logic, if Oracle has released the Sun patents into the OIN pool (and i haven’t specifically seen that they have) then anyone in the OIN can use those patents for whatever project they like (assuming it fits any OIN limitations).

Comment on IcedTea and OpenJDK now part of OIN by Matt

Matt — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:33:21 +0000

What does it matter? Dalvik is not java.

Comment on IcedTea and OpenJDK now part of OIN by Simon Phipps

Simon Phipps — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:16:50 +0000

Could be this is why Oracle is focussing on copyright in their case against Google. Well, that and the demolition job Google has done on their claims…

Comment on IcedTea and OpenJDK now part of OIN by Simon Phipps

Simon Phipps — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:32:36 +0000

It’s great news that OpenJDK is now included – indeed, I and others ahve been working to achieve that for several years.

What is less good is that Sony and Phillips have decided they still want the right to make threats against software freedom in the following areas (from http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/pat_linuxdef.php):
(i) DVR functionality,
(ii) Electronic Program Guide (EPG) functionality,
(iii) DVD Video functionality,
(iv) Blu-ray functionality,
(v) the Blu-ray format,
(vi) Receiver functionality,
(vii) Wireless Networking functionality,
(viii) Content Matching and Identification and Recommendation functionality,
(ix) Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology,
(x) Lighting Control,
(xi) User Interface technology,
(xii) Digital Display technology,
(xiii) Camera functionality,
and as to Philips only: (xiv) Virtualization technology.

In some ways that is an escalation rather than a reduction in hostilities.