RFR: 8306980: Generated docs should contain correct GPLv2 Legal Documents [v6]

[Jaikiran Pai]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 05:07:34 GMT, KIRIYAMA Takuya <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> I modified the location from which javadoc copies some legal files to the generated documentation.  If --legal-notices　option is set to default or nothing is specified,, GPLv2 Legal Documents are copied from legal/java.base/ directory, such as LICENSE, ADDITIONAL_LICENSE_INFO and ASSEMBLY_EXCEPTION.
>> 
>> Would you please review this fix?
>
> KIRIYAMA Takuya has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains six additional commits since the last revision:
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>  - Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin' into 8306980
>  - 8306980: Generated docs should contain correct GPLv2 Legal Documents
>  - Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin' into 8306980
>  - 8306980: Generated docs should contain correct GPLv2 Legal Documents
>  - 8306980: Generated docs should contain correct GPLv2 Legal Documents
>  - 8306980: Generated docs should contain correct GPLv2 Legal Documents

Thank you Mandy. If it's OK then I'll go ahead and file an enhancement for jlink tool and propose a PR with these suggested changes. This current issue can then be used to do the build side changes to mark `jdk.javadoc` module as not needing deduplication.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13686#issuecomment-1748111199