Note that Oracle has not, and will not, donate the canonical archive of NetBeans to Apache. Only the tips of the source code that constitute NetBeans are being donated.
Gj On Tuesday, September 4, 2018, Neil C Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 4 Sep 2018, 11:35 Ate Douma, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just chiming in and Bertrand may have some more explicit answer, but the > > answer below from Roman *only* concerns allowing *linking* to > > prior official releases. That is very different from *distributing* > > such prior release artifacts from apache.org, which isn't allowed. > > OK, thanks both. I guess I read particularly the second part > differently / wrongly. I suppose I never thought the idea of linking > out would ever be in question. > > For the record, I personally find this policy questionable. I > understand sandboxing the pre-Apache things from everything else > (suitable disclaimers and all). But with domains and brands being > donated, it seems to me that an Apache community should be able to > take responsibility for the canonical archive of a project if the > donating body doesn't want to. Linking back to Oracle is one thing, > but I'm not sure linking to a random GitHub repo (Emi's or otherwise) > is in anyone's interest. > > 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 > > > >
