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                      ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT LICENSING
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Certain files distributed by Oracle America, Inc. and/or its affiliates are 
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subject to the following clarification and special exception to the GPLv2, 
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based on the GNU Project exception for its Classpath libraries, known as the 
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GNU Classpath Exception.
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Note that Oracle includes multiple, independent programs in this software 
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package.  Some of those programs are provided under licenses deemed 
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incompatible with the GPLv2 by the Free Software Foundation and others. 
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For example, the package includes programs licensed under the Apache 
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License, Version 2.0 and may include FreeType. Such programs are licensed 
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to you under their original licenses. 
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Oracle facilitates your further distribution of this package by adding the 
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Classpath Exception to the necessary parts of its GPLv2 code, which permits 
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you to use that code in combination with other independent modules not 
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licensed under the GPLv2. However, note that this would not permit you to 
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commingle code under an incompatible license with Oracle's GPLv2 licensed 
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code by, for example, cutting and pasting such code into a file also 
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containing Oracle's GPLv2 licensed code and then distributing the result. 
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Additionally, if you were to remove the Classpath Exception from any of the 
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files to which it applies and distribute the result, you would likely be 
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required to license some or all of the other code in that distribution under 
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the GPLv2 as well, and since the GPLv2 is incompatible with the license terms 
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of some items included in the distribution by Oracle, removing the Classpath 
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Exception could therefore effectively compromise your ability to further 
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distribute the package. 
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Failing to distribute notices associated with some files may also create 
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unexpected legal consequences.
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Proceed with caution and we recommend that you obtain the advice of a lawyer 
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skilled in open source matters before removing the Classpath Exception or 
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making modifications to this package which may subsequently be redistributed 
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and/or involve the use of third party software.