backport-util-concurrent License

Providers:

Doug Lea

Emory University

Public Domain license, from http://backport-jsr166.sourceforge.net/

From the LEGAL file:

The backport-util-concurrent software has been released to the public domain, as explained at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain.

Acknowledgements: backport-util-concurrent is based in large part on the public domain sources from:

JSR166,
package dl.util.concurrent,
Doug Lea's "collections" package.

Written by Dawid Kurzyniec, based on public domain code written by Doug Lea and publictly available documentation, and released to the public domain, as explained at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain.

Verification that Doug Lea's code is public domain, from: http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/classes/collections/#secSource:

Note: All of the code in this package carries the following header;

Originally written by Doug Lea and released into the public domain.

Thanks for the assistance and support of Sun Microsystems Labs, Agorics Inc, Loral, and everyone contributing, testing, and using this code.

This means that you can use it for any purpose whatsoever, with no restrictions.

From the LICENSE file:

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