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by __HYde 2570 days ago
In that it is GPL+Link Exception licensed. The copyright still belongs to Oracle. See this[0] example:

> Copyright (c) 1997, 2007, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

> This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only

[0] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/jdk/file/tip/src/share/...