On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 05:07:34 GMT, KIRIYAMA Takuya <d...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> I modified the location from which javadoc copies some legal files to the 
>> generated documentation.  If --legal-notices option is set to default or 
>> nothing is specified,, GPLv2 Legal Documents are copied from 
>> legal/java.base/ directory, such as LICENSE, ADDITIONAL_LICENSE_INFO and 
>> ASSEMBLY_EXCEPTION.
>> 
>> Would you please review this fix?
>
> KIRIYAMA Takuya has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a 
> merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes 
> brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains six additional 
> commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin' into 8306980
>  - 8306980: Generated docs should contain correct GPLv2 Legal Documents
>  - Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin' into 8306980
>  - 8306980: Generated docs should contain correct GPLv2 Legal Documents
>  - 8306980: Generated docs should contain correct GPLv2 Legal Documents
>  - 8306980: Generated docs should contain correct GPLv2 Legal Documents

> On Windows, the per module legal files (in this case for the jdk.javadoc 
> module) do not contain the actual legal text. That's due to how jlink 
> generates them on systems (like Windows) which do not support symbolic links.

This is by design to avoid duplicating `COPYRIGHT` and `LICENSE` from java.base 
in each module. 

One idea to fix this is to extend jlink `--dedup-legal-notices` to accept an 
option that specify the module names that always wants to keep a copy of the 
legal files.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13686#issuecomment-1747301865

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