On 12/25/2017 11:58 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
IANAL, but AFAIK It would not help. The incompatibility is because
you can't link pure GPLv2 code (HotSpot) and pure GPLv3 code
(binutils) together, even via dynamic linkage. Changing the licences
of hsdis.{c,h}) won't solve that problem.
But Hotspot links against libgcc and libstdc++, which are GPLv3 as well,
so that issue isn't specific to hsdis. It obviously has not stopped
anyone from distributing OpenJDK binaries (or Git binaries, for that
matter).
Thanks,
Florian
