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

From Fredrik Jonson <fredrik@jonson.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: Is it legal to backport code from JDK8 to JDK6?
Date 2015-03-31 16:20 +0000
Message-ID <slrnmhliak.l2c.fredrik@biggles.jonson.org> (permalink)
References <a296b442-cdae-4283-9383-52a7712d9e8b@googlegroups.com> <mfc5nj$a87$1@news.albasani.net>

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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.

-- 
Fredrik Jonson

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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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