jaxws/ASSEMBLY_EXCEPTION
author prr
Tue, 11 May 2010 14:36:10 -0700
changeset 5381 d6d64a42ff51
parent 8 474761f14bca
child 41435 4f24b84a3775
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6931180: Migration to recent versions of MS Platform SDK 6944048: VS2010 build failure in make/com/sun/java/pack: missing unpack200.exe.manifest 6944015: VS2010 build failure in awt_TextArea.cpp: ambiguous call to abs() 6936319: JDK build fails in awt_DnDDS.cpp with Visual Studio 2008/Platform SDK 7 6944516: Windows L&F is broken in SwingSet2, when JDK is built with the recent Windows SDK Summary: Changes to enable building JDK7 with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Reviewed-by: ohair, art, ccheung, dcubed


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.