Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 21.04.2021, 11:01 -0700 schrieb Ernie Rael: > If I take random files, all of which are GPL-CPE, and bundle those into > a jar and put it in maven central then can I call it GPL-CPE?
everytime a license question comes up, the only right answer is: Ask _your_ lawyer (and be prepared to sue him if he is wrong). Jokes aside, yes, that is what I would assume. The crux is this sentence: Certain source files distributed by Oracle America and/or its affiliates are subject to the following clarification and special exception to the GPL, but only where Oracle has expressly included in the particular source file's header the words "Oracle designates this particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided by Oracle in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code." [...] Certain source files [...] - all would be so much easier, if this would have been make unconditional. So whoever releases nb-javac, at this point Anton Epple made the binary released on maven central available, could remove that disclaimer and we would be done: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-563?focusedCommentId=17311712&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#comment-17311712 The interesting question: Are either Anton Epple or Oracle willing to remove the uncertainty? I followed Jaroslavs Analysis of the source and did an independed scan of the codebase and came up with the same conclusion as Jaroslav. In the end there needs to be a license file, that clarifies, that the whole binary is subject to the classpath exception. > It's too bad the question asked at the end of > https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/LEGAL/issues/LEGAL-563 was not > answered. Which question? Greetings Matthias --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
