diff -r d958f883b42a -r 2f703334f63f jdk/make/ASSEMBLY_EXCEPTION --- a/jdk/make/ASSEMBLY_EXCEPTION Tue Aug 12 15:16:51 2008 -0700 +++ /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 @@ -1,27 +0,0 @@ - -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 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.