jlink / legal folder and LICENSE

[forax at univ-mlv.fr]

Thanks Alan, Mandy,
i was not aware that the ea license was not the same as the openjdk license.

Rémi

----- Mail original -----
> De: "Mandy Chung" <mandy.chung at oracle.com>
> À: "Remi Forax" <forax at univ-mlv.fr>
> Cc: "jigsaw-dev" <jigsaw-dev at openjdk.java.net>
> Envoyé: Mercredi 25 Janvier 2017 18:36:29
> Objet: Re: jlink / legal folder and LICENSE

>> On Jan 25, 2017, at 3:08 AM, Alan Bateman <alan.bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On 25/01/2017 10:53, forax at univ-mlv.fr wrote:
>> 
>>> :
>>> I mean legal/java.base/LICENSE in jdk9.
>> 
>> The EA builds that Oracle publishes on jdk9.java.net have a LICENSE file that
>> links to the BCL on oracle.com. AFAIK, this link has not changed, it's not
>> really something that we have any control of here.
> 
> Before jdk-9+136, the LICENSE file was in the top level JDK directory with the
> following content:
>    Please refer to http://java.com/license
> 
> It was a bug. The EA builds are under a different click-through license [1] at
> download time and so it was removed in jdk-9+136.
> 
>> 
>> If you are building jdk9/dev yourself then I assume you get the LICENSE file
>> that you looking for.
>> 
>> When using jlink to create your own run-time images then the legal notices come
>> from the packaged modules.
>> 
> 
> For OpenJDK build, legal/java.base/LICENSE contains OpenJDK license:
>   http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html
>    
> Mandy
> [1]] https://jdk9.java.net/download/