(J)Hat tool exclusion

[Kelly O'Hair]

IANAL ... I think this was just an oversight on our part.
I will investigate, since I was the one that initiated dragging
these files into the jdk sources.

-kto

Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I found that all distributions (fedora, opensuse, ubuntu) carry a patch
> to remove the (j)hat tool from the sources. They apparently do this
> because the files under openjdk/jdk/src/share/classes/com/sun/tools/hat/
> contain both the standard GPLv2.0 and SPLv1.0 legal language in their
> boilerplate. Since the terms of the GNU General Public License and the
> Sun Public License have conflicting terms this would seem to make them
> not redistributable.
> 
> So, should we do the same in icedtea for now?
> 
> Mark, Dalibor, do you know the history behind these files? I am pretty
> sure Sun didn't intend this to be read as conflicting terms for
> redistribution, so nobody should distribute them at all. Maybe they
> should be read as you can either distribute these files under the GPL or
> alternatively under the SPL? Is there someone we can/should contact to
> clarify this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark
>