On 12/26/18 11:56 AM, Emilian Bold wrote:
1. If we were to create an installer for installing Apache NetBeans (i.e.,
no JDK included, simply for installing NetBeans), could we distribute that
from our Apache NetBeans site?
See http://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#compiled-packages
You can, with various notices and caveats in mind, create convenience
binaries, but the project cannot vote on them for obvious reasons, nor
do they count as an official release. There are signing options
available for packages as well.
I read there that "binary/bytecode packages MAY be distributed
alongside official Apache releases". So the packages must also be
available on Apache infrastructure.
It doesn't mention if we can publish binaries after a release. For
example, we have another thread about publishing Ubuntu Snap packages,
but those binaries were not part of the release email vote thread, nor
are they on dist.apache.org. If we can't vote on new binaries, do we
need another release to publish new binaries?
Convenience binaries are not part of the official project release, you
could add them whenever, provided you remember to properly let people
know that they are not what we consider official releases.
the TL;DR of this discussion is; you cannot vote on something you cannot
verify, so convenience binaries, while they may be distributed via our
mirror system, are not part of the official release, and as such, you
could add them after the fact.
3. What's the status in legal terms of Emilian's CoolBeans, i.e., can
anyone take Apache NetBeans source code at any point of the release and
rename it and then provide it in their own way? (I'm assuming Yes here, but
would be good to have that very clearly established.)
Yes, provided they keep the notices intact and do their best to prevent
confusion between their fork and the official product.
Cool! ;-)
--emi
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