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I might be misreading this, but it seems like most of SVM is not under Classpath exception (most of the files are missing the magic words), which implies SubstrateVM binaries must be GPL 2. Is this intentional?

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that's most likely intentional, I'm sure Oracle has a lot of lawyers to look over this kind of stuff ;-)

It seems you are right and that they are very aware of which parts of the project are GPL2+classpath and which are not...

https://github.com/graalvm/graal/issues/269

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