RFR: CODETOOLS-7903176: Move LJV inside JOL [v2]

[Ivan Ponomarev]

On Tue, 27 Sep 2022 11:29:18 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <shade at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> It's not external code. 
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>> The first version of LJV was created by John Hamer in 2003 (before Maven Central and GitHub) and released under GNU GPL. This comment is from the 2003 version of LJV (the code was heavily modified since then) .  I'm exchanging emails with John, he approves what we're doing. John signed the OCA and was added to contributors of this PR.
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>> Is it OK if we remove GPL header (we have GPL header from Oracle) and leave `//-Author` and `//-Created` for historical reasons?
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> I cannot advise on what you should do here. I see the current PR already does what you suggest, which I presume what John approves? Anyhow, I think we need to ask @robilad for guidance here.

Yes, John approves indeed. He's not at GitHub, but he's available via email and he approves the whole idea and he's glad that his idea revived.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jol/pull/24