I'm OK with reverting if Automatic-Module-Name will be specified

What is wrong with Jakarta licensing?
Tomcat-10-M1 was just released with jakarta jars ....

On Sat, 29 Feb 2020 at 22:23, Romain Manni-Bucau <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Le sam. 29 févr. 2020 à 16:17, Mark Struberg <[email protected]> a
> écrit :
>
> > Btw, the whole module system is a big fail.
> > There are right now discussions in BIG projects to skip all that and
> > revert to just plain jars again.
> >
> > The point is that we right now have our own sources and are fine with it.
> > I really don't understand the point of changing this in a minor version.
> >
>
> There are a few thgs to consider I think:
>
> 1. There is this 1 for 1000 users of jpms so even if a failure, we should
> comply with it today
> 2. We must ensure to have the same name than the official spec jar
> otherwise your link descriptor - module info - looses its portability
> 3. We must not deliver the spec jar transitively so the one we build
> against must not be important except for the assembly (if no more relevant
> we can drop it IMHO)
>
> Now, if the action is to rerelease jpa geronimo jar with the official
> mofule name, lets just do it if jakarta jar license is not asf friendly -
> will be needed for asf projects delivering it anyway.
>
> Hope it makes sense.
>
>
>
> > LieGrue,
> > strub
> >
> > > Am 29.02.2020 um 16:09 schrieb Mark Struberg <[email protected]
> > >:
> > >
> > > Sorry that this slipped. This imo needs further discussion.
> > > The license aspect is not clear imo.
> > > We also break many downstream openjpa users which had their whole
> > toolset tailored for geronimo-specs.
> > >
> > > I'm +1 for a revert and cleanup of geronimo-jpa-spec.
> > >
> > > LieGrue,
> > > strub
> > >
> > >> Am 25.12.2019 um 12:40 schrieb Maxim Solodovnik <[email protected]>:
> > >>
> > >> You are right
> > >> this change breaks java8 build
> > >> OK, my PR will stay the same :))
> > >>
> >



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