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libc and java

libc and java

Posted Jun 7, 2011 10:58 UTC (Tue) by mjw (subscriber, #16740)
In reply to: libc and java by jonabbey
Parent article: Android, forking, and control

> The language in Oracle's license declaration is:
> [...] the GNU Classpath class library exception text [...]
> Which would, indeed, make it a copyleft issue for the non-covered classes.

Indeed. But in practice for SE all classes are covered. In OpenJDK all sources for the core library classes carry this exception text. This was just like how GNU Classpath used to handle this case, by having that exact same exception to cover the whole core class library.


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