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Geertjan Wielenga edited comment on NETBEANS-54 at 9/5/17 12:42 PM:
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I don't necessarily see a problem with option a, i.e., the need to review all
files and include only those which are not "third party and separately licensed
material".
I.e., that would mean doing a check for (a) JAR files and other binaries [of
which none will be found, since we removed them prior to doing the donation]
and (b) copyright notices. I.e., if we find files that are not licensed to
Oracle, we need to evaluate on a case-by-case basis whether they can be
released under Apache. We have already gone through that process as part of
preparing the ZIP file for donation to Apache and can go through that process
again, if needed.
was (Author: geertjanwielenga):
I don't necessarily see a problem with option a, i.e., the need to review all
files and include only those which are not "third party and separately licensed
material".
I.e., that would mean doing a check for (a) JAR files and other binaries [of
which none will be found, since we removed them prior to doing the donation and
(b) copyright notices. I.e., if we find files that are not licensed to Oracle,
we need to evaluate on a case-by-case basis whether they can be released under
Apache. We have already gone through that process as part of preparing the ZIP
file for donation to Apache and can go through that process again, if needed.
> Clarify the status of donated files from ApacheNetBeansDonation1.zip
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>
> Key: NETBEANS-54
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-54
> Project: NetBeans
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Bertrand Delacretaz
>
> Reviewing the software grant [1] provided with the first NetBeans code
> donation, my understanding is that not all files found in that zip are
> donated.
> The grant indicates that the contents of that file [2] ("Code File") are
> donated "excluding any third-party and separately licensed material contained
> within the Code File".
> I don't think we can consider that code ready to release as is, due to the
> uncertainty that this creates w.r.t to which files are donated and which are
> not.
> The zip archive contains about 45'000 files.
> I see the following options:
> a) Review all files and include only those which are not "third-party and
> separately licensed material". How such files are identified needs to be
> defined and documented, either in scripts under version control or as a set
> of rules. The review process must be documented and traceable, so that we can
> go back to it if problems are found in the future.
> b) Get an updated grant which does not mention such exclusions.
> If someone sees other options please discuss here or on the NetBeans dev
> list, referencing this ticket.
> [1] in svn under private/documents/grants/oracle-america-netbeans.pdf , ASF
> members have access
> [2] under http://bits.netbeans.org/download/apache-donation/ -
> SHA256(ApacheNetBeansDonation1.zip)=
> 7f2ca0f61953a190613c9a0fbcc1b034084b04a4d55d23c02cefffc354e7c24a
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