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Re:Substrate VM – A framework that allows AOT compilation of... by EgoIncarnate on Thursday January 04, 2018 @01:11PM (#16072555)
I might be misreading this, but it seems like most of SVM is not under Classpath exception (most of the files are missing the magic words), which implies SubstrateVM binaries must be GPL 2. Is this intentional?
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Re:Substrate VM – A framework that allows AOT compilation of... by lewurm on Thursday January 04, 2018 @04:54PM (#16074423)
that's most likely intentional, I'm sure Oracle has a lot of lawyers to look over this kind of stuff ;-)
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Re:Substrate VM – A framework that allows AOT compilation of... by mbreese on Thursday January 04, 2018 @06:34PM (#16075122)
It seems you are right and that they are very aware of which parts of the project are GPL2+classpath and which are not...

https://github.com/graalvm/graal/issues/269

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