On Tue, 1 Mar 2022 20:18:11 GMT, Man Cao <m...@openjdk.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > Could anyone help review the addition of LICENSE file to hsdis directory? > > -Man
The context is that Google have an automated check for license compliance for all imported open-source software. We (Java platform team) have to maintain a script that finds and copies all licenses within OpenJDK codebase, in order to pass the license compliance check. All other licenses within the OpenJDK codebase are already in their own files that contain only the license information. We have two options: - Add special-handling code to the script we maintain, so it can extract the license information from hsdis's README.md file and copy it. - Provide a separate file for hsdis that contains only the license in OpenJDK. The second approach is more appealing to us, as it reduces our script's complexity and maintenance burden, and makes hsdis's license structure consistent with other licenses in OpenJDK. If getting the legal approval requires too much overhead, we could use the first approach to implement the logic in our script instead. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7649
