RFR: 8282507: Add LICENSE file for hsdis

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On Tue, 1 Mar 2022 20:18:11 GMT, Man Cao <manc at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Could anyone help review the addition of LICENSE file to hsdis directory?
> 
> -Man

When you say your change "makes hsdis's license structure consistent with other licenses in OpenJDK", what do you mean by that? 

If we had random LICENSE files lying around I'd agree that we should do the same here, but that is clearly not the case. There's a top-level LICENSE file. And there are markdown files in share/legal for licenses of included 3rd party code. Can you clarify how this change would improve consistency?

>From my PoV, this is just another case of how parts of the code use GPL, and parts use GPL+classpath exception. There are no "LICENSE" file specific to Hotspot saying it has a different license in general to e.g. java.base.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7649