[License-discuss] GPLv2+ce question - are you forced to make your project open source.

[Florian Weimer]

* B. Galliart:

> If you are redistributing Amazon Corretto or any other OpenJDK as-is
> without modification then you must do the following for everyone you
> provide it to:
>
> (1) You must make them aware the product included Amazon Corretto and it
> being covered under the terms of the GPLv2+CE

But that's not actually true.  Various parts of OpenJDK are under
different licenses.  For example, the VM itself (Hotspot) is covered
by the GPL (without Classpath exception).