1 2 OPENJDK ASSEMBLY EXCEPTION 3 4 The OpenJDK source code made available by Oracle America, Inc. (Oracle) at 5 openjdk.java.net ("OpenJDK Code") is distributed under the terms of the GNU 6 General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html> version 2 7 only ("GPL2"), with the following clarification and special exception. 8 9 Linking this OpenJDK Code statically or dynamically with other code 10 is making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms 11 and conditions of GPL2 cover the whole combination. 12 13 As a special exception, Oracle gives you permission to link this 14 OpenJDK Code with certain code licensed by Oracle as indicated at 15 http://openjdk.java.net/legal/exception-modules-2007-05-08.html 16 ("Designated Exception Modules") to produce an executable, 17 regardless of the license terms of the Designated Exception Modules, 18 and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under GPL2, 19 provided that the Designated Exception Modules continue to be 20 governed by the licenses under which they were offered by Oracle. 21 22 As such, it allows licensees and sublicensees of Oracle's GPL2 OpenJDK Code 23 to build an executable that includes those portions of necessary code that 24 Oracle could not provide under GPL2 (or that Oracle has provided under GPL2 25 with the Classpath exception). If you modify or add to the OpenJDK code, 26 that new GPL2 code may still be combined with Designated Exception Modules 27 if the new code is made subject to this exception by its copyright holder. 28
