RFR - JDK-8149776 - BSD license for jimage code

[Andrew Dinn]

On 14/02/16 14:13, Jim Laskey (Oracle) wrote:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jlaskey/8149776/webrev/index.html <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jlaskey/8149776/webrev/index.html>
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8149776 <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8149776>

This change set appears to be changing the license for a slew of image
related code files from GPL to BSD. However, the associated issue is not
accessible (it looks like it is Oracle private).

Can someone provide some context to explain why this is being done?

regards,


Andrew Dinn
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