What do we actually have to do with regards to license distribution?

[catmanjan]

Hello I have gotten myself confused about the whole IKVM/OpenJDK/GPL license situation here

Lets just say I made a super simple console app and added the IKVM via nuget - when I build that project the bin folder has a bunch of LICENSE, THIRD_PARTY_README and TRADEMARK files in it

Do I just need to make sure these files make it into any software I distribute, or do I need to do something more?

[wasabii]

Well, you have to follow the terms in all of em as it relates to the specific stuff you're redistributing. That said, it's pretty much just the same stuff you get as you download OpenJDK yourself, mixed with some of our IKVM stuff which is zlib.

Most of OpenJDK is GPLv2 with a linking exception. But there are some bits that aren't.

I shy away from providing legal guidance on that as it's not my code or licenses. To the best of my knowledge, as a redistributor, I follow them.

[catmanjan]

Thanks, good enough for me