JIDE OSS license vs coprights

[sacm]

Hello,

I 'm evaluating the jide-oss package for the use in one of my companies (closed source) projects. When browsing the source code I found some copyright notices which seem to be in confict with the GPL license under which jide.oss is published. For example

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/*
 * @(#)JideBorderLayout.java
 *
 * Copyright 2002 JIDE Software Inc. All rights reserved.

 * Copyright 2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
 * SUN PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL. Use is subject to license terms.
 */

Our legal department won't let me use the whole jide software as long as it contains third party copyrights, even if we purchased a commercial license.
Could someone please explain, why the code contains copyright notices from JIDE Software and Sun Microsystems although it is published under GPL?

[JIDE Support]

JideBorderLayout is a modified version of old Sun JDK's BorderLayout. That's why we keep a Sun copyright notice there as it was many years ago. Since now the JDK is open source under http://openjdk.java.net using http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html, which is the same license we are using in JIDE Common Layer, I don't see any legal issue here. We will update the copyright notice to reflect it.