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From: "Ate Douma (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] [Commented] (LEGAL-279) Apache NetBeans optional Java
 cluster depending on external GPLv2+CPE nb-javac module
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Ate Douma commented on LEGAL-279:
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I really have no idea, although I assume not.
At any rate, that is something to be separately discussed in the NetBeans project and out of scope for the question this issue is about.

> 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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