RFR 8208183: update HSDIS plugin license to UPL

mark.reinhold at oracle.com mark.reinhold at oracle.com
Tue Aug 21 18:33:43 UTC 2018


2018/8/21 11:11:00 -0700, john.r.rose at oracle.com:
> On Aug 21, 2018, at 9:41 AM, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 08/21/2018 11:14 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
>>> Am I correct in understanding that there are no more legal barriers 
>>> towards doing such a thing anymore?
>> 
>> You'd still be linking GPLv2-only code (libjvm) against GPLv3-or-later
>> code (binutils).  IANAL, but I suspect you can't get around the GPLv3
>> that easily.
> 
> IANAL2 but bringing in a new set of source code into the OpenJDK build
> always requires care with IP issues, which AFAIK need to be triple checked
> by real Ls.

Indeed.

Magnus -- I suggest you hold off on this until interested contributors
can check with their legal teams.  (I’ll help you with Oracle’s legal
team.)

- Mark



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