If in NetBeans IDE the user does New/Java Class, then (I think) this template will be instantiated: https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=incubator-netbeans.git;a=blob;f=java.project.ui/src/org/netbeans/modules/java/project/ui/resources/Class.java.template;h=e9890cf1ebbfa872259a65b4259e10fd05053a79;hb=HEAD
So, there may be two separate questions: a) what is the license of the template (for which I don't personally see a problem be the Apache License) b) what is the license of the file created from the template (where I suspect it would be a problem if the license would had to be the Apache license, regardless of the target project) Of course, this is not the only template NB has, and not the only way to generate code for the user in the IDE. But the main question to me is what is the license of the code the IDE generates for the user. Jan On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 11:26 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz < bdelacre...@apache.org> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 11:16 AM, Neil C Smith > <neilcsmith....@googlemail.com> wrote: > > ...I assume we wouldn't want the output of > > them to be under any kind of license?... > > As a podling, NetBeans releases are approved by the Incubator PMC, and > I doubt they would approve a release containing files with no license. > > See "Source File Headers for Code Developed at the ASF" at > https://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html for details. > > If someone want to discuss other options best is to do so on the > general@incubator.a.o list, as they're the ones who would approve or > reject such variants. We can discuss as much as we want here but > things which are outside ASF policy (which as explained is meant to > simplify things at the Foundation level as well as for our users) > won't fly. > > -Bertrand >
