12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637 |
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT LICENSING
- Certain files distributed by Oracle America, Inc. and/or its affiliates are
- subject to the following clarification and special exception to the GPLv2,
- based on the GNU Project exception for its Classpath libraries, known as the
- GNU Classpath Exception.
- Note that Oracle includes multiple, independent programs in this software
- package. Some of those programs are provided under licenses deemed
- incompatible with the GPLv2 by the Free Software Foundation and others.
- For example, the package includes programs licensed under the Apache
- License, Version 2.0 and may include FreeType. Such programs are licensed
- to you under their original licenses.
- Oracle facilitates your further distribution of this package by adding the
- Classpath Exception to the necessary parts of its GPLv2 code, which permits
- you to use that code in combination with other independent modules not
- licensed under the GPLv2. However, note that this would not permit you to
- commingle code under an incompatible license with Oracle's GPLv2 licensed
- code by, for example, cutting and pasting such code into a file also
- containing Oracle's GPLv2 licensed code and then distributing the result.
- Additionally, if you were to remove the Classpath Exception from any of the
- files to which it applies and distribute the result, you would likely be
- required to license some or all of the other code in that distribution under
- the GPLv2 as well, and since the GPLv2 is incompatible with the license terms
- of some items included in the distribution by Oracle, removing the Classpath
- Exception could therefore effectively compromise your ability to further
- distribute the package.
- Failing to distribute notices associated with some files may also create
- unexpected legal consequences.
-
- Proceed with caution and we recommend that you obtain the advice of a lawyer
- skilled in open source matters before removing the Classpath Exception or
- making modifications to this package which may subsequently be redistributed
- and/or involve the use of third party software.
|