And the "excluding" clause is a safety clause, i.e., anything in the ZIP
that is third party or separately licensed is indeed not donated. But we've
spent the past 6 months or so removing those files.

Gj

On Mon, 4 Sep 2017 at 10:37, Geertjan Wielenga <
geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> All of the files in the ZIP are donated.
>
> The list of 3rd party libs in the grant is the list of references to 3rd
> party libraries used by the files in the ZIP. Apache legal and Oracle legal
> are the ones who defined the requirement for that list to be drawn up.
>
> Gj
>
> On Mon, 4 Sep 2017 at 10:18, Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacre...@apache.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 4:23 PM, Jaroslav Tulach
>> <jaroslav.tul...@oracle.com> wrote:
>> > ...I've taken the HTML/Java API from the ApacheNetBeansDonation1.zip
>> provided by
>> > Geertjan in issue https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-15006
>> and I
>> > started the transition to ASF...
>>
>> I've had a look at the software grant provided with this donation [1]
>> and my non-lawyer understanding of it is that not all files found in
>> that zip are donated.
>>
>> The grant indicates that the contents of that file [2] ("Code File")
>> are donated "excluding any third-party and separately licensed
>> material contained within the Code File".
>>
>> My understanding is that this puts the burden on the NetBeans podling
>> to sort out the files and find out which ones are ok for an ASF
>> release and which ones are not.
>>
>> I'm not going to touch any of this myself, it sounds like a big job
>> and a big responsibility for this podling - but maybe I'm missing
>> something.
>>
>> -Bertrand
>>
>> [1] in svn under private/documents/grants/oracle-america-netbeans.pdf
>> - ASF members have access
>> [2] SHA256(ApacheNetBeansDonation1.zip)=
>> 7f2ca0f61953a190613c9a0fbcc1b034084b04a4d55d23c02cefffc354e7c24a
>>
>

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