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| author | jlaskey <none@none> | 2012-12-21 16:36:24 -0400 |
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| committer | jlaskey <none@none> | 2012-12-21 16:36:24 -0400 |
| commit | 8185dbe2de2cbc92de2a247018ca5ccfca4047d9 (patch) | |
| tree | 7383cfecccd985a21e16d2e5f9756f27c725bbe3 /ASSEMBLY_EXCEPTION | |
| parent | fd4324db7c43a2007b3a8f5c8792dbf605c55160 (diff) | |
| download | jdk8u_nashorn-8185dbe2de2cbc92de2a247018ca5ccfca4047d9.tar.gz | |
8005403: Open-source Nashorn
Reviewed-by: attila, hannesw, lagergren, sundar
Contributed-by: james.laskey@oracle.com, akhil.arora@oracle.com, andreas.woess@jku.at, attila.szegedi@oracle.com, hannes.wallnoefer@oracle.com, henry.jen@oracle.com, marcus.lagergren@oracle.com, pavel.semenov@oracle.com, pavel.stepanov@oracle.com, petr.hejl@oracle.com, petr.pisl@oracle.com, sundararajan.athijegannathan@oracle.com
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diff --git a/ASSEMBLY_EXCEPTION b/ASSEMBLY_EXCEPTION new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8b7ac1d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/ASSEMBLY_EXCEPTION @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ + +OPENJDK ASSEMBLY EXCEPTION + +The OpenJDK source code made available by Sun at openjdk.java.net and +openjdk.dev.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, Sun gives you permission to link this + OpenJDK Code with certain code licensed by Sun 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 Sun. + +As such, it allows licensees and sublicensees of Sun's GPL2 OpenJDK Code to +build an executable that includes those portions of necessary code that Sun +could not provide under GPL2 (or that Sun 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. |