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diff --git a/staging/darwin-x86/jre/ASSEMBLY_EXCEPTION b/staging/darwin-x86/jre/ASSEMBLY_EXCEPTION new file mode 100644 index 0000000..065b8d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/staging/darwin-x86/jre/ASSEMBLY_EXCEPTION @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ + +OPENJDK ASSEMBLY EXCEPTION + +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. |