Mark,

>From http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/download.html 

"The source code for Rhino is available under MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0 license."

My guess is that it may be the lack of a Classpath Exception which is the
real culprit.

Thankfully, IANAL either.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-boun...@openjdk.java.net [mailto:discuss-
> boun...@openjdk.java.net] On Behalf Of mark.reinh...@oracle.com
> Sent: October-18-11 12:22 PM
> To: henri.go...@gmail.com
> Cc: disc...@openjdk.java.net; macosx-port-...@openjdk.java.net; bsd-
> port-...@openjdk.java.net
> Subject: Re: Rhino build support
> 
> 2011/10/17 10:06 -0700, henri.go...@gmail.com:
> > ...
> >
> > I couldn't find officials indications or documentation on how to add
> > Rhino from Mozilla to OpenJDK build.
> >
> > Questions :
> >
> > 1) Did there is any reason why Rhino is not included in bsd-port (and
> > so macosx-port) like licence problems ?
> 
> Yes, license problems.  Rhino is licensed under the MPL, which is
> fundamentally incompatible with the GPL.
> 
> - Mark (IANAL)



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