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From: Geertjan Wielenga <geertjan.wielenga@googlemail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 12:56:06 +0100
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Subject: Re: Current status of NetBeans code donation
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Nothing is completely settled yet, we need to make very sure we're not
donating code that should not be donated.

And, indeed, incremental code grants could be the way to go. I'm not aware
of any code that we want to donate that is outside the org.netbeans
namespace and, should we later find that we need to include that, we could
-- once all sides agree -- do a separate donation for those parts as they
come up.

Gj

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Emilian Bold <emilian.bold@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Wasn't this already settled in the CCLA and nb-javac thread?
>
> Could we expect the source code by, say, January 1st 2017?
>
> How about you do this incrementally and update the grant each time:
>
> You start with the build and Platform cluster, license-check it, change the
> license to Apache, sign the CCLA just for these modules and upload the code
> to Apache.
>
> Then continue with, say, Javascript, license-check that, change the license
> to Apache, update the CCLA and upload the modules to Apache.
>
> ... and so on until there is nothing left.
>
>
>
>
> --emi
>
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Geertjan Wielenga <
> geertjan.wielenga@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Since transferring code to Apache means that the code automatically
> becomes
> > Apache licensed, it is of extreme importance that we don't inadvertently
> > donate code that we don't want to donate.
> >
> > E.g.,  simply donating 'hg.netbeans.org' is going to be problematic,
> since
> > there's for example the 'nb-javac', i.e., javac fork in there, which
> indeed
> > can be excluded, though there are other pieces in hg.netbeans.org, such
> as
> > hg.netbeans.org/apitest, which we also don't want to donate since that's
> > also a fork of something GPL-licensed from the JDK. Moreover,
> > hg.netbean.org/contrib contains modules that are also potentially
> > contentious.
> >
> > Hence, there is quite some work going on at the moment to identify which
> > parts we actually do want to donate. We don't want to find out afterwards
> > that we have donated code that belongs to the JDK which, of course, we
> can
> > then remove from the Apache repo, although we'd still have the history of
> > that erroneous commit in there, which we do not want to have happen.
> >
> > Potentially, we need to go through every package going out and
> specifically
> > delineate what we are donating, if there's pieces in there that we're not
> > donating.
> >
> > Maybe one approach could be to limit the wording of the code grant for
> the
> > hg.netbeans.org repositories to source code written in the Java
> > programming
> > language to just those source code files within the "org.netbeans"
> > namespace, i.e. in the "org.netbeans" package hierarchy. Then, while the
> > transfer of that subset of code is taking place, which would be the
> > majority of the code we'd want anyway, we could look at the other code
> on a
> > case by case basis for inclusion in the donation.
> >
> > Anyway, just sketching out the situation right now -- and again I had
> > assumed, falsely, that all these considerations would only be applicable
> at
> > the end of incubation, not right at the start. All this is the case
> since,
> > again, anything we put into an Apache repo is then at that stage Apache
> > code.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Gj
> >
>

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