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Matthias Bläsing commented on NETBEANS-5109:
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[~jlahoda] ok - it is not clear, but I'm not willing to take the uphill battle.
If anyone wants to make this the first GPLv2-CPE dependency that is acked by
apache legal, I'm fine with it and see a good chance, but will not do it. But I
put some preparation into this to make another option easier doable.
[~arviapra] I created https://github.com/oracle/nb-javac/pull/2, which is a
template/implementation for publishing to maven central. The procedure proposed
there is successfully used by the JNA project to publish its artifacts. Please
have a look. Once a release is published to maven central we can move the
dependencies to that publication and the issue is fixed.
> Remove distribution of nbjavac from apache controlled infrastructure
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> Key: NETBEANS-5109
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-5109
> Project: NetBeans
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: java - Compiler
> Affects Versions: 12.3
> Reporter: Matthias Bläsing
> Priority: Blocker
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> The ASF has a pretty clear opinion about the handling of the GPLv2-CPE. There
> might be an option to distribute it, but not out of the box. After the
> transition of NetBeans from oracle to the ASF there was a timeframe were use
> of the Oregon State University was ok, as the transition was happening. I
> think we stretched that limit to the max and thus I consider this a blocker
> for the next release. The nbjavac needs to be moved of ASF controlled
> infrastructure.
> There are various options:
> - Oracle could publish nbjavac to maven central
> - Oracle could provide a custom updatecenter distributing the nbjavac
> - Oracle could relicense javac
> - Apache NetBeans could switch to the eclipse java development tools
> Not all of these options are realistic, but publishing to maven central is
> perfectly doable.
> I'll mark this as a blocker for next release, so it is not ignored.
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