If it's not just about the DTDs but the JAR too the we should move it outside the repo.
Still, relicensing the code would help. How will be the owner of the Hibernate related code: the ASF or Oracle? --emi Pe 31 mai 2017, la 11:18, Geertjan Wielenga <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> a scris: > Not only do we have these three DTDs that are licensed LGPL, we also have > the LGPL Hibernate 4.3.1 JAR in the Java cluster. > > Sooner or later we're going to have to deal with that. I'd be in favor of > removing Hibernate completely from Apache NetBeans and making it available > as some kind of separate plugin, with the source code hosted outside > Apache, i.e., on GitHub somewhere. > > Gj > > > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 10:46 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz < > bdelacre...@apache.org> wrote: > >> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 10:05 AM, Geertjan Wielenga >> <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> ...4. We could ask Apache for a legal decision on whether these DTDs >> could be >>> included, since we're not distributing them -- we're only using them to >>> build NetBeans.... >> >> I think the (P)PMC can make that decision, best is to create a jira >> ticket so it's properly documented, and I would refer to that ticket >> in the LICENSE.TXT specifying that those are only used for building. >> >> -Bertrand >>
