On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 at 10:46, Ernie Rael <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought Neil had said that gpl2/cp-exception, could be finessed > through Apache, so I'm wondering... And I don't know if Apache considers > CDDL unacceptable.
Just to add to what Antonio stated, CDDL is Cat B, and GPL2+CPE can be treated similarly if we jump through a few hoops - https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-b That effectively means both can be included as third-party binaries only - not in sources, not developed here. > [IANAL] My opinion is that the NetBeans team is being overly > conservative (the question of copyrighted and unlicensed files, if any > exist, has to be addressed) if it's true that gpl2/cp can be finessed. No, we're really not! We do have to follow ASF guidance. But the fact that the latter part of your statement happened kind of belies the first part! ;-) Best wishes, Neil --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
