Am Donnerstag, den 16.05.2019, 18:54 +0100 schrieb Neil C Smith: > On Thu, 16 May 2019 at 17:53, Matthias Bläsing > <mblaes...@doppel-helix.eu> wrote: > > Even better, Oracle would be in the > > position to change the wording of the license if necessary and they > > are > > the only ones, that could do it. > > Actually, they can't - and I'm going on the basis that they're not > going to write a completely new license for ASF! ;-) The CPE might be > tweakable but it's a standardized wording, so I can't see that > happening either.
The points raised in the referenced issue target the CPE. And the CPE is started with "Certain source files distributed by Oracle America and/or its affiliates[...]". So yes, this is Oracle specific and Oracle lawyers could give their opinion/interpretation in the issue and help resolving it. > Anyway, this is OT. I stand by the opinion that this is one that ASF > needs to resolve itself, as the idea of Java being a "platform" > dependency gets overtaken by real world events. If the ASF can do it alone, I'm all for it, but the issue stands unresolved. At the time of donation there was already the Category X categorization of GPL licenses family (and a note, that special exceptions to the GPL also fall into that category). So Oracle and the ASF both had to be aware, that bundling the only freely distributable JDK (OpenJDK) will be a major PITA. Greetings Matthias --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
