On Wed, 1 Jul 2020 at 14:05, Jaroslav Tulach <[email protected]> wrote: > The purpose of this email is to build consensus of what the term > "executable" means in the context of Apache NetBeans project. > > There has been a discussion on [legal mailing list]( > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r0482d10f784f26f72b836f8480a13c7876ef8499f1f285166b1cf241%40%3Clegal-discuss.apache.org%3E) > and it turns out that understanding the meaning of term "executable" is > quite important. ... > For Matthias 1, 2, 3, 4 and 7 are executables. I fully support his opinion > and I want this to become the official definition of "executable" for the > Apache NetBeans project.
I'm inclined to -1, but am curious as to the intention behind this thread? I think if anything it's not useful for us to make that blanket determination, because it has different meanings in different contexts. And I think all of Matthias' examples apply. In the narrow scope of that thread and the GPLv2 and classpath exception, that was adapted from GCC Runtime Library Exception, and I believe the updated version of that now uses target code in place of executable? I think in that case it should be considered in line with the text at https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gcc-exception-3.1-faq.html And from that I think trying to determine this for that particular case other than individual modules are *.java files and executables are their resulting *.class files is going to end up being counterproductive. Best wishes, Neil --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
