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Re: Is it legal to backport code from JDK8 to JDK6?

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Subject Re: Is it legal to backport code from JDK8 to JDK6?
Date Tue, 31 Mar 2015 23:02:38 +0200
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Am 31.03.2015 18:20, schrieb Fredrik Jonson:
> In <mfc5nj$a87$1@news.albasani.net> Sebastian wrote:
>
>>   I posed a similar question towards the end of January, under the heading
>>   "Oracle Java license question". [...]
>>
>>   However, I am developing proprietary closed source software and you
>>   aren't.
>
> You are aware that Openjdk is licensed, not under a strict GPL licence, but
> under the GPL + Classpath exception? That makes quite the difference.
>
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/jdk/file/9e9f5713b26d/LICENSE#l326
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL_linking_exception
>
> Hence, it doesn't make much difference if you distribute Openjdk code in a
> closed source, non-GPL, or open source product. The GPL + CE doesn't taint
> the linked code like a purely GPL licensed source code does.
>
Thanks for that clarification! -- Sebastian

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Is it legal to backport code from JDK8 to JDK6? Haddock <ffm2002@web.de> - 2015-03-30 04:37 -0700
  Re: Is it legal to backport code from JDK8 to JDK6? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-03-30 10:04 -0400
  Re: Is it legal to backport code from JDK8 to JDK6? Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2015-03-30 18:43 +0200
  Re: Is it legal to backport code from JDK8 to JDK6? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-03-30 14:06 -0400
    Re: Is it legal to backport code from JDK8 to JDK6? Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2015-03-30 20:37 +0200
    Re: Is it legal to backport code from JDK8 to JDK6? Fredrik Jonson <fredrik@jonson.org> - 2015-03-31 15:58 +0000
  Re: Is it legal to backport code from JDK8 to JDK6? Sebastian <news@seyweiler.dyndns.org> - 2015-03-30 20:47 +0200
    Re: Is it legal to backport code from JDK8 to JDK6? Fredrik Jonson <fredrik@jonson.org> - 2015-03-31 16:20 +0000
      Re: Is it legal to backport code from JDK8 to JDK6? Sebastian <news@seyweiler.dyndns.org> - 2015-03-31 23:02 +0200
  Re: Is it legal to backport code from JDK8 to JDK6? Haddock <ffm2002@web.de> - 2015-04-01 11:33 -0700

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