I've recorded this policy on https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/NetBeans+Policies
--emi ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On 5 June 2018 7:29 PM, Emilian Bold <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > It seems we are somewhat overzealous in our dependency license tracking and > our releases are having a lot of discussions because we still have the GPL > license included among the source files, since we have compile-time GPL > (w/CPE) dependencies. > > We don't include the GPL license in LICENSE or NOTICE, which is correct, but > the reviewers still grep for GPL and find the license text for the compile > time dependencies somewhere in the external/ folders. > > So, we had a vote[1] on a new Apache NetBeans policy of not tracking compile > time dependencies licenses. We will do a summary review when adding new > compile time dependencies, but that will be all. > > See this PR where we discuss the matter a bit > https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans/pull/561 and there are also > links towards other mailing list (vote-related) discussions. > > Personally I find this to be a mistake and I don't see why the ASF cares if > some downstream user gets scared when grep-ing for GPL inside our release. As > long as the release is valid, having the GPL license text in there would only > turn away the most superficial downstream legal reviewer. Since Apache > projects are not about maximising the market share or number of users, we > should not be concerned with this. In this regard, what we truly need to > change is the Apache policy about all this. > > Vote passed[2] with the following PPMC votes: > > +1 Wade Chandler > > +1 Matthias Bläsing > > +1 Emilian Bold (started vote) > > 0 Antonio Vieiro > > I'll create a wiki page with to take not of this project-based policy. > > 1. > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f44ed1652f900bfffc3af61a52c58cdc7be4bc9ef182291e4318dc3b@<private.netbeans.apache.org> > 2. > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/52fb6d7648bfddc30319cda651e4ca5a2ea46bbc0bb7bb37fb6660be@<private.netbeans.apache.org> > > --emi > > > 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
