Antonio Vieiro created NETBEANS-5552:
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Summary: lib-clank unknown license
Key: NETBEANS-5552
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-5552
Project: NetBeans
Issue Type: Sub-task
Reporter: Antonio Vieiro
Clank: Java-port of C/C++ compiler frontend is a "the Java port of native
Clang. The goal was to get the Java code as close to the original C++ code of
Clang as possible:" (quoting
[https://llvm.org/devmtg/2017-03//2017/02/20/accepted-sessions.html#5] ).
The source code seems to be available here:
[https://github.com/java-port/clank]
But it has no clear license. This is used in module cnd/lib.clank but without a
clear license it seems this module cannot be used in Apache NetBeans.
Possible steps forward:
* Disable libs.clang and cnd.model.jclank.bridge, removing them from the cnd
cluster (unknown consequences)
* Contact authors and ask for permission for the code to be donated to the
Apache Software Foundation. Note that this is a very complex code that may need
a considerable amount of work. Also uses llvm3.9 which is probably very old
nowadays and should be upgraded. The clank zip file contains many different
.jar files.
* Understand what functionality is provided by this module and seek for
alternate implementations (clangd / libclang / others).
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