Hey, Am Mittwoch, den 11.10.2017, 16:38 +0000 schrieb Neil C Smith: > Hi, > > On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 3:54 PM Jaroslav Tulach <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > One option that I haven't seem discussed in this thread is to: > > > > Have the license in the template files, but remove it during build. > > > > > > That might also be a good option. I've just put in a PR to replace the > Oracle header with the Apache one in the form module templates. However, > discussing this with Geertjan it seems the Oracle header was only added in > for the donation - eg. in 8.2 you don't see a header in the IDE, now you do. > > Personally I'm happy to redo the PR and remove them. And I still think > licensing templates makes no sense - if we're saying that the user can put > any license they want on the resulting code, then they're effectively > public domain.
I raised: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-85 and to be clear: The templates will never be Public Domain, even if there is no license header they stay ALv2. Greetings Matthias
