Re: About the NetBeans brand and our trademark

2019-11-02 Thread Laszlo Kishalmi
These patches are Debian build related. They are removing window stuff, and renaming some library references used in our code. Seeing all these, it is no wonder that the maintenance of the NetBeans Package is hard. On 11/2/19 12:39 PM, Eric Bresie wrote: Silly question these seem like from

Re: Re: About the NetBeans brand and our trademark

2019-11-02 Thread Eric Bresie
Silly question these seem like from 10.0 timeframe and/or did any of these changes make into current branch? What changes/defects were these associated? Eric Bresie ebre...@gmail.com > On November 2, 2019 at 5:52:29 AM CDT, Emilian Bold > wrote: > Could you point me to some document with the

Re: About the NetBeans brand and our trademark

2019-11-02 Thread John Neffenger
On 11/2/19 7:51 AM, Laszlo Kishalmi wrote: I'm on Ubuntu (not Debian), checked what is available for the platform. They have the 8.1 platform as library there. Other than that, it is the 10.0 harness. Right. Here's the full list: Package netbeans

Re: About the NetBeans brand and our trademark

2019-11-02 Thread Laszlo Kishalmi
On 11/2/19 7:26 AM, Matthias Bläsing wrote: Hi, Am Samstag, den 02.11.2019, 07:19 -0700 schrieb Laszlo Kishalmi: As of netbeans Debian package. It kind of hurts the brand mostly by being unmaintained. The current version can be installed, but it installs with Java 11 which we did not support

Re: About the NetBeans brand and our trademark

2019-11-02 Thread Matthias Bläsing
Hi, Am Samstag, den 02.11.2019, 07:19 -0700 schrieb Laszlo Kishalmi: > As of netbeans Debian package. It kind of hurts the brand mostly by > being unmaintained. The current version can be installed, but it > installs with Java 11 which we did not support at version 10. (Not > mentioning that

Re: About the NetBeans brand and our trademark

2019-11-02 Thread Laszlo Kishalmi
Ugh, just woke up for such an active thread... Just to be correct: OpenJDK is under GPL with ClassPath Exception. Theoretically the Classpath Exception part allows that if you modify the classpath only, then you can distribute the JDK under any other license. This would allow us bundle a JDK

Re: About the NetBeans brand and our trademark

2019-11-02 Thread Emilian Bold
OK. --emi On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 2:27 PM Geertjan Wielenga wrote: > > I don’t think we need to vote on anything that does not divert from the > standard Apache Way. > > Gj > > > On Sat, 2 Nov 2019 at 13:10, Emilian Bold wrote: > > > > No. It's the other way around -- if the NetBeans community

Re: About the NetBeans brand and our trademark

2019-11-02 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
I don’t think we need to vote on anything that does not divert from the standard Apache Way. Gj On Sat, 2 Nov 2019 at 13:10, Emilian Bold wrote: > > No. It's the other way around -- if the NetBeans community were to not > > defer to Apache (and why wouldn't they), that's when there should be

Re: About the NetBeans brand and our trademark

2019-11-02 Thread Emilian Bold
> No. It's the other way around -- if the NetBeans community were to not > defer to Apache (and why wouldn't they), that's when there should be a FAQ. I can work with this. But note that this was not the conclusion of any previous talk. > You'd simply be bundling it with a JDK and not modifying

Re: About the NetBeans brand and our trademark

2019-11-02 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 12:44 PM Emilian Bold wrote: > > What I'm looking for is: > > * transparency: the project having some guidelines about this. A > simple page where you link to > http://www.apache.org/foundation/license-faq.html#Name-changes is fine > by me, but you can't expect some sort

Re: About the NetBeans brand and our trademark

2019-11-02 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 12:44 PM Emilian Bold wrote: > > Which JDK is CoolBeans currently bundling? > > AdoptOpenJDK 11.0.4. > > > NetBeans is simply an Apache project. There's no need to ask what the > > NetBeans position or the NetBeans PMC position is. > > There was a discussion about this

Re: About the NetBeans brand and our trademark

2019-11-02 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 12:44 PM Emilian Bold wrote: > > Which JDK is CoolBeans currently bundling? > > AdoptOpenJDK 11.0.4. > > > NetBeans is simply an Apache project. There's no need to ask what the > > NetBeans position or the NetBeans PMC position is. > > There was a discussion about this

Re: About the NetBeans brand and our trademark

2019-11-02 Thread Emilian Bold
> Which JDK is CoolBeans currently bundling? AdoptOpenJDK 11.0.4. > NetBeans is simply an Apache project. There's no need to ask what the > NetBeans position or the NetBeans PMC position is. There was a discussion about this without a conclusion. If the PMC position is that they defer to Apache

Re: About the NetBeans brand and our trademark

2019-11-02 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
Yup, that would be cool. Gj On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 12:09 PM Neil C Smith wrote: > On Sat, 2 Nov 2019, 10:56 Geertjan Wielenga, wrote: > > > Seems to be Markus Koschany, I'll contact him. If the distro is really > > different in a significant way, they could call it DebianBeans, maybe. > :-) >

Re: About the NetBeans brand and our trademark

2019-11-02 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 12:03 PM Emilian Bold wrote: > > It would be great if you'd bundle CoolBeans with a JDK distro, e.g., > > AdoptOpenJDK. Will you do it? > > > Are you saying the NetBeans PMC expressly disallows a NetBeans > installer that would bundle AdoptOpenJDK? > I'm saying the exact

Re: About the NetBeans brand and our trademark

2019-11-02 Thread Neil C Smith
On Sat, 2 Nov 2019, 10:56 Geertjan Wielenga, wrote: > Seems to be Markus Koschany, I'll contact him. If the distro is really > different in a significant way, they could call it DebianBeans, maybe. :-) > What would life be if you couldn't rely on Debian to screw up a Java package?! ;-) Not

Re: About the NetBeans brand and our trademark

2019-11-02 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
Ah, right, a discussion was about whether AdoptOpenJDK would bundle NetBeans. Which JDK is CoolBeans currently bundling? NetBeans is simply an Apache project. There's no need to ask what the NetBeans position or the NetBeans PMC position is. Here are the Apache licensing terms:

Re: About the NetBeans brand and our trademark

2019-11-02 Thread Emilian Bold
> It would be great if you'd bundle CoolBeans with a JDK distro, e.g., > AdoptOpenJDK. Will you do it? CoolBeans has bundled a JDK since day one, November 2018(!). So, considering various Linux distros, etc. produce Apache trademarked artefacts (httpd, netbeans, etc) while also adding their

Re: About the NetBeans brand and our trademark

2019-11-02 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
Seems to be Markus Koschany, I'll contact him. If the distro is really different in a significant way, they could call it DebianBeans, maybe. :-) Gj On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 11:54 AM Geertjan Wielenga wrote: > Interesting, a pretty knowledgeable person there who could be contributing > to

Re: About the NetBeans brand and our trademark

2019-11-02 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
Interesting, a pretty knowledgeable person there who could be contributing to NetBeans directly, do you know who it is? It would be great if you'd bundle CoolBeans with a JDK distro, e.g., AdoptOpenJDK. Will you do it? Gj On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 11:53 AM Emilian Bold wrote: > Could you point

Re: About the NetBeans brand and our trademark

2019-11-02 Thread Emilian Bold
Could you point me to some document with the conclusion (FAQ, or whatever)? > How is Debian NetBeans modified? https://sources.debian.org/src/netbeans/10.0-3/debian/patches/ for starters. --emi On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 12:40 PM Geertjan Wielenga wrote: > > Yes, it did. And that was and is the

Re: About the NetBeans brand and our trademark

2019-11-02 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
Yes, it did. And that was and is the outcome. How is Debian NetBeans modified? Gj On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 11:37 AM Emilian Bold wrote: > The discussion never had an outcome. That is why I'm asking. Debian > NetBeans is *modified*. > > --emi > > On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 12:31 PM Geertjan Wielenga

Re: About the NetBeans brand and our trademark

2019-11-02 Thread Emilian Bold
The discussion never had an outcome. That is why I'm asking. Debian NetBeans is *modified*. --emi On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 12:31 PM Geertjan Wielenga wrote: > > If NetBeans is unmodified it is NetBeans, regardless of what you want to > combine it with. It's been discussed and this is the outcome.

Re: About the NetBeans brand and our trademark

2019-11-02 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
If NetBeans is unmodified it is NetBeans, regardless of what you want to combine it with. It's been discussed and this is the outcome. Gj On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 11:04 AM Emilian Bold wrote: > > Any particular reason? > > Well, I saw the new release, then the snapcraft release which reminded >

Re: About the NetBeans brand and our trademark

2019-11-02 Thread Emilian Bold
> Any particular reason? Well, I saw the new release, then the snapcraft release which reminded me of the other NetBeans 'forks' under, for example, Debian which still call themselves NetBeans although they are not released by Apache. So I remembered we had a talk long ago about this. >From a

Re: About the NetBeans brand and our trademark

2019-11-02 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
Makes sense. Gj On Sat, 2 Nov 2019 at 09:46, Neil C Smith wrote: > On Sat, 2 Nov 2019, 06:12 Emilian Bold, wrote: > > > I'm curious what the PMC stance on the NetBeans brand and trademark is > > these days. > > > > Any particular reason? > > I personally remain of the view that convenience

Re: About the NetBeans brand and our trademark

2019-11-02 Thread Neil C Smith
On Sat, 2 Nov 2019, 06:12 Emilian Bold, wrote: > I'm curious what the PMC stance on the NetBeans brand and trademark is > these days. > Any particular reason? I personally remain of the view that convenience binaries made by anyone from our (unmodified) source releases should be allowed under

Re: About the NetBeans brand and our trademark

2019-11-02 Thread Emilian Bold
I'm curious what the PMC stance on the NetBeans brand and trademark is these days. Is there some FAQ or other resource I could read? Does this seem correct? > if someone wants to re-distribute effectively (for some meaningful sense) > unmodified Apache NetBeans under the NetBeans name, it is not