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#25 Sun Microsystems is misspelled in license blocks

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eed3si9n
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2024-10-22
2024-10-22
Josh Soref
No

https://sourceforge.net/p/doubletype/code/HEAD/tree/doubletype/trunk/src/org/doubletype/ossa/Engine.java

  • In addition, as a special exception, e.e d3si9n gives permission to
  • link the code of this program with any Java Platform that is available
  • to public with free of charge, including but not limited to
  • Sun Microsystem's JAVA(TM) 2 RUNTIME ENVIRONMENT (J2RE),

The company was Sun Microsystems, Inc. -- see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems. When adding an apostrophe, it should come after the s...

Fwiw, if one were to update the code today, it should say Oracle instead (which makes handling the apostrophe easier...) as they bought Sun in 2010 (the code in this project appears to be from 2008 which predates the announcement/purchase).

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