Re: Cannot donate MIT code was: Status of Apache NetBeans code donation

2017-01-03 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 5:20 PM, Emilian Bold wrote: Looking forward to the code grant. Perhaps we should throw a party or > something! Definitely. :-) Gj On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 5:20 PM, Emilian Bold wrote: > About technical dependencies: > > You seem to have included knockout-3.4.0.js for n

Re: Cannot donate MIT code was: Status of Apache NetBeans code donation

2017-01-03 Thread Emilian Bold
About technical dependencies: You seem to have included knockout-3.4.0.js for no reason. Deleting the file doesn't seem to need any other reference change so it was just a code cleanup? For env.nashorn.1.2-debug.js though you should add the file on bits.netbeans.org or somewhere better. It's only

Re: Cannot donate MIT code was: Status of Apache NetBeans code donation

2017-01-03 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
That's a great point. Just because Oracle can't donate, for example, Knockout.js, does not mean that we cannot use, for example, Knockout.js, once we're in Apache. I think we should take this route in the work we're doing at the moment in Oracle to prepare the donation: When we encounter somethin

Re: Cannot donate MIT code was: Status of Apache NetBeans code donation

2017-01-03 Thread Mark Struberg
I share your conclusio. Nemo plus iuris transferre potest quam ipse habet. Oracle cannot grant us anythong which they don't own. Apart from that there is a separate question where any ASF project can add MIT based code. And the answer is yes, we can [1]. Of course we have to add it to our NOTICE

Cannot donate MIT code was: Status of Apache NetBeans code donation

2017-01-03 Thread Jaroslav Tulach
Hello Emilian, great question. Possibly something for Apache mentors to help us explain. On úterý 3. ledna 2017 11:54:37 CET Emilian Bold wrote: > Why did you remove 2 compatible dependencies which were MIT licensed? Originally this puzzled me as well. However it seems logical to me now. Oracle