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