Hermetic Java (static image packaging/formatting) investigation and proposal

[Ron Pressler]

> On 13 Feb 2023, at 09:58, Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Doesn't this make the resulting executable non-distributable in almost
> all cases, for licensing reasons?  (Hotspot is under the GPL, version 2,
> most open-source Java libraries use the Apache license, version 2.0, and
> those two are generally considered incompatible.)  

I’m not sure your interpretation of the GPL+CPE is correct, but I don’t know if anyone here can give a definitive answer.

— Ron