On Oct 25, 2010, at 2:13 PM, Jonathan Hess wrote: > I remember that SoyLatte was encumbered by the some kind of JCP developer > license restriction. However, my understanding is that this port should not > be. Is that understanding correct? Is there anything special about the BSD > port that makes it license differently from the regular OpenJDK's GPL2 > license?
The short answer is that the OpenJDK BSD-Port is fully redistributable, and is licensed under the same terms as the the mainline OpenJDK (GPLv2 or GPLv2+CPE). The original BSD port of Java 6 (including Mac OS X support) was based on the Java Research License (JRL) sources as provided by Sun, and subject to associated distribution restrictions. The project was granted a one-time re-licensing to permit the merging into OpenJDK under GPLv2/GPLv2+CPE, which is what's available from the BSD-Port project today. -landonf
