Well, this opens another discussion. I don't believe Oracle or Amazon could 'bundle' NetBeans for trademark reasons.
They could, of course, create their own IDE based on Apache NetBeans. --emi On Sun, 23 Dec 2018 at 15:08, Geertjan Wielenga <[email protected]> wrote: > Oracle itseld could bundle NetBeans with its JDK, and/or Amazon with its > JDK, and/or Azul, etc. The sources they’d need for doing that would be in > the Apache NetBeans Github repo thanks to Reema’s PR. > > Gj > > On Sunday, December 23, 2018, Matthias Bläsing <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hey Geertjan, > > > > Am Sonntag, den 23.12.2018, 13:17 +0100 schrieb Geertjan Wielenga: > > > > > > Just like the NetBeans binaries, an installer (bundled or not), is a > > > convenience binary. > > > > > > > The installer might be bundled (if build from donated code). A JDK > > (that was Emilians question) is a different beast. > > > > My reading is, that the apache foundation won't accept GPL*/GPL-2-CP > > binaries in files distributed by it. That means we can't create a > > bundled release. > > > > That won't stop other though. An external project could create binaries > > based on the Apache Netbeans source, that: > > > > * bundles nb-javac (GPL-2-CP) > > * bundles a JDK (plain OpenJDK, Azul JDK, Corretto should all be GPL- > > 2-CP) > > * bundles JavaFX (GPL-2-CP) > > > > Greetings > > > > Matthias > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > > > > > > > > > -- --emi
