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Posted to legal-discuss@apache.org by "Henri Yandell (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org> on 2019/11/11 08:55:00 UTC
[jira] [Comment Edited] (LEGAL-488) Bundling GPL+CPE (OpenJDK) into
convenience binaries.
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-488?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=16971391#comment-16971391 ]
Henri Yandell edited comment on LEGAL-488 at 11/11/19 8:54 AM:
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Thank you for your patience Laszlo :)
I was reading it as OpenJDK being one of those independent modules whose licensing conditions must be met. If we consider 'independent module' a defined term, which they do define in the next sentence to be something other than the library, then I agree - the 'executable' doesn't have to worry about the GPL licensing of the OpenJDK 'library'.
Anyone following on list have any concerns with this situation? NetBeans being able to produce an installer that includes OpenJDK inside a NetBeans executable, with the only licensing requirements on NetBeans being any non GPL/CPE pieces of the OpenJDK library used?
was (Author: bayard):
I was reading it as OpenJDK being one of those independent modules whose licensing conditions must be met. If we consider 'independent module' a defined term, which they do define in the next sentence to be something other than the library, then I agree - the 'executable' doesn't have to worry about the GPL licensing of the OpenJDK 'library'.
Anyone following on list have any concerns with this situation? NetBeans being able to produce an installer that includes OpenJDK inside a NetBeans executable, with the only licensing requirements on NetBeans being any non GPL/CPE pieces of the OpenJDK library used?
> Bundling GPL+CPE (OpenJDK) into convenience binaries.
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> Key: LEGAL-488
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-488
> Project: Legal Discuss
> Issue Type: Question
> Reporter: Laszlo Kishalmi
> Priority: Major
>
> Apache NetBeans is a big Java based Desktop application. In order to run it needs a JDK.
> The OpenJDK is licensed GPL+CPE, as we read the CPE it would allow to bundle the JDK with NetBeans as an executable.
> We have installers, hosted on Apache infrastructure that could benefit from this. We also have a Snap package which is not hosted, but build on the Apache infrastructure. I do not know if that matters or not, that's why I mention it here.
> Also not being able to produce an out-of-the box convenience binaries is kind of hurts our brand in a way that third party vendors are free to do that.
>
> So what's the Legals opinion about bundling OpenJDK in the convenience binaries?
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