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diff --git a/options/license/OpenJDK-assembly-exception-1.0 b/options/license/OpenJDK-assembly-exception-1.0 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3a35f11 --- /dev/null +++ b/options/license/OpenJDK-assembly-exception-1.0 @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +The OpenJDK source code made available by Oracle America, Inc. +(Oracle) at openjdk.java.net ("OpenJDK Code") is distributed +under the terms of the GNU General Public License +<http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html> version 2 only +("GPL2"), with the following clarification and special +exception. + +Linking this OpenJDK Code statically or dynamically with +other code is making a combined work based on this +library. Thus, the terms and conditions of GPL2 cover the +whole combination. + +As a special exception, Oracle gives you permission to +link this OpenJDK Code with certain code licensed by +Oracle as indicated at +http://openjdk.java.net/legal/exception-modules-2007-05-08.html +("Designated Exception Modules") to produce an +executable, regardless of the license terms of the +Designated Exception Modules, and to copy and distribute +the resulting executable under GPL2, provided that the +Designated Exception Modules continue to be governed by +the licenses under which they were offered by Oracle. + +As such, it allows licensees and sublicensees of Oracle's GPL2 +OpenJDK Code to build an executable that includes those +portions of necessary code that Oracle could not provide under +GPL2 (or that Oracle has provided under GPL2 with the Classpath +exception). If you modify or add to the OpenJDK code, that new +GPL2 code may still be combined with Designated Exception +Modules if the new code is made subject to this exception by +its copyright holder. |