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