Rhino build support

Dr Andrew John Hughes ahughes at redhat.com
Tue Oct 18 15:49:29 PDT 2011


On 20:08 Tue 18 Oct     , Henri Gomez wrote:
> > I suggest you ask a lawyer.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion but individuals like me don't have lawyers
> available so easily, especially those involved in licences issues :)
> 
> Usually there is people very aware of licences problematics in OSS
> community, that's why I'm trying to get answers here :)
> 
> In IcedTea FAQ (http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions)
> 
> "What license is IcedTea released under?
> IcedTea is released under the GPL2 + Classpath exception, which is the
> same license as both GNU Classpath and OpenJDK.
> "
> 
> IcedTea include Rhino, so I guess GPL2 + Classpath may be a valid licence.
> 
> If IcedTea guys are around, advices more than welcomed

No, we don't.  We provide the option to use the system installed Rhino package.
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