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     1 ## Mozilla Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC)
       
     2 
       
     3 ### Mozilla ECC Notice
       
     4 
       
     5 This notice is provided with respect to Elliptic Curve Cryptography,
       
     6 which is included with JRE, JDK, and OpenJDK.
       
     7 
       
     8 You are receiving a [copy](http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/jdk/file/tip/src/jdk.crypto.ec/share/native/libsunec/impl)
       
     9 of the Elliptic Curve Cryptography library in source
       
    10 form with the JDK and OpenJDK source distributions, and as object code in
       
    11 the JRE & JDK runtimes.
       
    12 <pre>
       
    13 In the case of the JRE & JDK runtimes, the terms of the Oracle license do
       
    14 NOT apply to the Elliptic Curve Cryptography library; it is licensed under the
       
    15 following license, separately from Oracle's JDK & JRE.  If you do not wish to
       
    16 install the Elliptic Curve Cryptography library, you may delete the
       
    17 Elliptic Curve Cryptography library:
       
    18    - On Solaris and Linux systems: delete $(JAVA_HOME)/lib/libsunec.so
       
    19    - On Mac OSX systems: delete $(JAVA_HOME)/lib/libsunec.dylib
       
    20    - On Windows systems: delete $(JAVA_HOME)\bin\sunec.dll
       
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   534            How to Apply These Terms to Your New Libraries
       
   535 
       
   536   If you develop a new library, and you want it to be of the greatest
       
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   542   To apply these terms, attach the following notices to the library.  It is
       
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   566 You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
       
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   570   Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the
       
   571   library `Frob' (a library for tweaking knobs) written by James Random Hacker.
       
   572 
       
   573   <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1990
       
   574   Ty Coon, President of Vice
       
   575 
       
   576 That's all there is to it!
       
   577 
       
   578 </pre>