License: openjdk version 9: files under GPL v2.0 only - (outside of hotspot) - please review

Fri Dec 15 14:02:28 UTC 2017

Alan,
thank you very much, 
Monika

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Bateman [mailto:Alan.Bateman at oracle.com] 
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2017 10:50 AM
To: Schnizer, Monika; jdk-dev at openjdk.java.net
Subject: Re: License: openjdk version 9: files under GPL v2.0 only - (outside of hotspot) - please review


On 14/12/2017 08:28, monika.schnizer at ts.fujitsu.com wrote:
> Dear developers of openjdk,
>
> thank you very much for providing this open version of java.
> It is really great!
>
> We recently run a Fossology license scan on openjdk version 9 and 
> identified the following files to be under GPL v2.0 only. We assume that most of them should be GPL v2.0 + Java Classpath Exception.
> Please could you kindly investigate into this (possibly together with your license expert).
>
Thanks, sometimes mistakes can happen. I've created JDK-8193609 [1] to track this. Note that your scan is JDK 9, the list of files might be a bit different for jdk/jdk and jdk/jdk10.

-Alan

[1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8193609