On Thu, 16 May 2019 at 20:18, Matthias Bläsing <mblaes...@doppel-helix.eu> wrote: > The points raised in the referenced issue target the CPE. And the CPE > is started with "Certain source files distributed by Oracle America > and/or its affiliates[...]". So yes, this is Oracle specific and Oracle > lawyers could give their opinion/interpretation in the issue and help > resolving it.
It is the following two paragraphs that are relevant, and they are adopted (verbatim as far as I can tell) from the Classpath Exception, as in https://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html This exception has a lot of other uses, particularly in the Java ecosystem - using it myself for a few things. > If the ASF can do it alone, I'm all for it, but the issue stands > unresolved. Well, I found an interesting comparison point recently - https://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/GPL_CE_Policy.php > So Oracle and the ASF both had to be > aware, that bundling the only freely distributable JDK (OpenJDK) will > be a major PITA. Because of ASF policies though. The point of the CPE is to allow this sort of bundling. Best wishes, Neil --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists