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     2 OPENJDK ASSEMBLY EXCEPTION
       
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     4 The OpenJDK source code made available by Sun at openjdk.java.net and
       
     5 openjdk.dev.java.net ("OpenJDK Code") is distributed under the terms of the
       
     6 GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html> version 2
       
     7 only ("GPL2"), with the following clarification and special exception.
       
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     9     Linking this OpenJDK Code statically or dynamically with other code
       
    10     is making a combined work based on this library.  Thus, the terms
       
    11     and conditions of GPL2 cover the whole combination.
       
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    13     As a special exception, Sun gives you permission to link this
       
    14     OpenJDK Code with certain code licensed by Sun as indicated at
       
    15     http://openjdk.java.net/legal/exception-modules-2007-05-08.html
       
    16     ("Designated Exception Modules") to produce an executable,
       
    17     regardless of the license terms of the Designated Exception Modules,
       
    18     and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under GPL2,
       
    19     provided that the Designated Exception Modules continue to be
       
    20     governed by the licenses under which they were offered by Sun.
       
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    22 As such, it allows licensees and sublicensees of Sun's GPL2 OpenJDK Code to
       
    23 build an executable that includes those portions of necessary code that Sun
       
    24 could not provide under GPL2 (or that Sun has provided under GPL2 with the
       
    25 Classpath exception).  If you modify or add to the OpenJDK code, that new
       
    26 GPL2 code may still be combined with Designated Exception Modules if the
       
    27 new code is made subject to this exception by its copyright holder.