[GitHub] emilianbold commented on issue #594: Update licenses + notices (4)

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emilianbold commented on issue #594: Update licenses + notices (4)
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans/pull/594#issuecomment-398277870
 
 
   The patch looks good.
   
   I dislike these JARs that come with a mix of licenses.
   
   I would prefer we have some structure here.
   
   Here's an idea: instead of adding a new file 'Apache-2.0-smack' we should break up that into it's parts 'Apache-2.0' + 'BSD-jsch' + 'MIT-indiana' (not sure if it's really MIT, but as an example doesn't matter) and then have some way to declare this mix in the 'License:' header.
   
   Maybe the '+' operator could have special meaning, instead of being part of the file? And it's parsed differently by the ant task?
   
   Or maybe we create multiple files: we crease 'BSD-jsch' and 'MIT-indiana' and also the 'full' file 'Apache-2.0+BSD-jsch+MIT-indiana' which is just a concatenation of those?
   
   My idea being about structure but also about underlining true 'variants' of a license versus files that are covered by a bundle of multiple licenses. So a file MIT-xyz would be a variation of MIT while MIT+BSD is the license covering a JAR which has a mix of MIT and BSD licensed code.
   
   Does this make sense? (We can move all this discussion in a separate thread on dev@ or something)
   
   +1 for the patch
   
   PS: Travis seems to fail due to low disk space?
   
   

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