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1The Checker Framework
2Copyright 2004-present by the Checker Framework developers
3
4
5Most of the Checker Framework is licensed under the GNU General Public
6License, version 2 (GPL2), with the classpath exception.  The text of this
7license appears below.  This is the same license used for OpenJDK.
8
9A few parts of the Checker Framework have more permissive licenses, notably
10the parts that you might want to include with your own program.
11
12 * The annotations and utility files are licensed under the MIT License.
13   (The text of this license also appears below.)  This applies to
14   checker-qual*.jar and checker-util.jar and all the files that appear in
15   them, which is all files in checker-qual and checker-util directories.
16   It also applies to the cleanroom implementations of
17   third-party annotations (in checker/src/testannotations/,
18   framework/src/main/java/org/jmlspecs/, and
19   framework/src/main/java/com/google/).
20
21The Checker Framework includes annotations for some libraries.  Those in
22.astub files use the MIT License.  Those in https://github.com/typetools/jdk
23(which appears in the annotated-jdk directory of file checker.jar) use the
24GPL2 license.
25
26Some external libraries that are included with the Checker Framework
27distribution have different licenses.  Here are some examples.
28
29 * JavaParser is dual licensed under the LGPL or the Apache license -- you
30   may use it under whichever one you want.  (The JavaParser source code
31   contains a file with the text of the GPL, but it is not clear why, since
32   JavaParser does not use the GPL.)  See
33   https://github.com/typetools/stubparser .
34
35 * Annotation Tools (https://github.com/typetools/annotation-tools) uses
36   the MIT license.
37
38 * Libraries in plume-lib (https://github.com/plume-lib/) are licensed
39   under the MIT License.
40
41===========================================================================
42
43The GNU General Public License (GPL)
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45Version 2, June 1991
46
47Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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