Will it be possible to contribute code to the OpenJDK community that Sun does not plan to ship in its implementations, such as ports to other operating systems or hardware platforms?
Of course. OpenJDK will embrace code contributions that augment the Java SE platform such as with new ports, research projects and other improvements including code Sun will not test or integrate into its own products. Criteria for how contributed code will be deemed appropriate for OpenJDK is still under discussion (e.g., application code will likely not be considered appropriate). Sun plans to identify interim criteria shortly and final criteria will be defined in the OpenJDK Constitution. This is no different from other open-source projects and code commons, where the community, through governance processes, decides what goes into the commons, but then distributors who construct products and distributions from that commons have the latitude to create targeted distributions that address specific markets and commercial opportunities. We expect that the OpenJDK Constitution will include provisions for how such code can be accepted and what quality, testing, and ownership criteria it wo
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