Steven Chamberlain writes ("Re: openjdk-8 upstream limits source
distribution?"):
> On 03/09/14 14:21, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > The JDK8 licence is GPL-incompatible.
>
> The same statement doesn't seem to be present in the LICENSE file inside
> the tarball. So, someone who already has a JDK8 source tarball should
> be licensed to redistribute it freely, but that statement on their
> website, "the JDK source code may only be distributed to an authorized
> list of countries", is very confusing.
Oh, that's fine then. It's not a licence restriction - it's simply a
restriction on permission to use Oracle's servers to obtain the code.
Ian.
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