[Fedora-legal-list] visualvm multi licensing

[Tom Callaway]

On 11/23/2010 10:04 AM, Stanislav Ochotnicky wrote:
> I am doing review of old/new package - visualvm [1]. It used to be part
> of openjdk until recently.
> 
> spec file contains multiple source tarballs.
> * netbeans-profiler-visualvm_release69.tar.gz contains dual-licensed
> files (GPLv2 with classpath exception or CDDL)
> * visualvm_harness-*tar - GPLv2
> * visualvm_13-src.tar.gz - GPLv2+
> 
> The jars from profiler tarball are separate (files from it are not mixed
> into any other package, so classpath exception should be "working" as I
> understand it).
> 
> Harness tar is basically just configure scripts and build instructions.
> 
> visualvm_13-src contains the main application compiled using harness,
> the jars from profiler tar are used as plugins.
> 
> I'd say it's OK to have this mix, but I'd like to be sure about exact
> License tag that is appropriate here. Maybe:

The mix seems fine, but since the works are separate, I would use:

# Exception is classpath
License: GPLv2 and GPLv2+ and (GPLv2 with exceptions or CDDL)

Thanks,
~tom

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