Upcoming changes to copyright notices in JDK 6 and JDK 7

[Mark Reinhold]

Over the next few weeks we'll update the legal notices in Sun-copyrighted
OpenJDK source files to reflect Oracle's acquisition of Sun.  This change
will affect the OpenJDK 6 forest [1], the JDK 7 master forest [2] and
active integration forests, the HotSpot stabilization forests, and the
source bundles for the jaxp and jax-ws components.  Only the listed
copyright holder will change; the licenses themselves will remain the
same.

Oracle's standard formats for copyright lines differ from Sun's, which
were either

   Copyright $X Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.

for a file created and modified only in year $X, or

   Copyright $X-$Y Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.

for a file created in year $X and last modified in year $Y ($Y > $X).
The Oracle formats are, respectively:

   Copyright (c) $X, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

and

   Copyright (c) $X, $Y, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

The multi-year copyright is different ("$X, $Y" instead of "$X-$Y"), but
the meaning is the same.

Related OpenJDK legal documents [3] will be updated in a similar manner
in due course.

- Mark


[1] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6
[2] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7
[3] http://openjdk.java.net/legal/