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Subject: [jira] [Created] (LEGAL-279) Apache NetBeans optional Java cluster
depending on external GPLv2+CPE nb-javac module
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2016 21:48:00 +0000 (UTC)
From: Ate Douma (JIRA) <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Ate Douma created LEGAL-279:
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Summary: Apache NetBeans optional Java cluster depending on
external GPLv2+CPE nb-javac module
Key: LEGAL-279
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-279
Project: Legal Discuss
Issue Type: Question
Reporter: Ate Douma
The Apache NetBeans incubator project is asking for an answer from the Apache
Legal Affairs Committee to the following question:
{quote}
Is the Apache NetBeans project allowed to develop and release
optional "Java cluster" modules which depends on the external category-X
(GPLv2+CPE) licensed nb-javac module?
NetBeans users who wants to use these optional "Java cluster" modules will be
required to provide for or install the nb-javac module themselves.
{quote}
The proposed solution and the above question, as well as possible alternative
solutions, have been discussed at length \[1] on the project dev@ list, with a
latest summary by me at \[2].
The nb-javac module is a NetBeans specific fork of the Java JDK Java compiler,
and is explicitly excluded by Oracle from the NetBeans code donation to Apache.
The NetBeans optional Java cluster modules (for example the Java Editor) have an
direct compile and runtime dependency on the nb-javac module (api and
implementation).
While Java is an important optional module for NetBeans, and many NetBeans users
do use/need it for Java development support, it is not part of the NetBeans core.
NetBeans also has many users not using or needing the Java support, for example
for C/C++, Javascript or PHP development, or when using NetBeans as platform for
other products.
The proposed solution, requiring end users to install the Category-X nb-javac
module themselves, only if they want to use the NetBeans Java cluster modules,
assumes that the Java cluster modules may be regarded as "optional" as explained
at \[3].
\[1]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/16b99577a9b219e87ff1b1bcd22edd2f2faf105f338d025350126d22@%3Cdev.netbeans.apache.org%3E
\[2]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/7ebc9ae9d6e5fceced128768f6cf312e837348cc66c3fafde02cd666@%3Cdev.netbeans.apache.org%3E
\[3] http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#optional
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