On Tue, 4 Oct 2022 17:57:46 GMT, Damon Nguyen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> src/java.desktop/share/legal/freetype.md line 542: >> >>> 540: /* >>> 541: * Copyright 2000 Computing Research Labs, New Mexico State University >>> 542: * Copyright 2001-2015 >> >> Why did this notice need to be moved down to the end of the file ? >> It makes the diff look bigger than it actually is and I can't imagine any >> reason we would need to change the order. > > This is due to the addition of the MIT license being treated as a separate > license from the freetype license. In the modified tool, licenses are > separated by license type. The additional freetype licenses are "variants" of > the primary license (freetype) so it seemed to make sense for it to follow > the freetype & GPL license. Then, other licenses (such as MIT in this case) > follow afterwards. > > This can be manually modified to maintain the old order but I believed it > made more sense this way in the tool since variants of the primary license > would follow the primary license. Well if it is only a one-off... BTW phrases such as "the modified tool" etc are very out of place here .. I don't see a tool in this PR, do you ? I believe you are referring to some script(s) that not part of OpenJDK that you are using to produce these updates. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10561
