[GitHub] matthiasblaesing commented on issue #561: Removing GPL licenses from nbbuild/licenses, and a lot of various ref…

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matthiasblaesing commented on issue #561: Removing GPL licenses from nbbuild/licenses, and a lot of various ref…
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans/pull/561#issuecomment-392246329
 
 
   I agree, that there is value in tracking license information for compile time dependencies and in fact Jan does too. However I tend to agree with Jan, as we are fighting an uphill battle and Jan tried to reason about it with the reviewers and failed as referenced.
   
   The compile-time information is recorded in the "-license.txt" file in external. And they don't/did not end up in the assembled LICENSE/NOTICE file, but the reviewers were confused nonetheless. The machinery for the combination is in:
   
   /nbbuild/antsrc/org/netbeans/nbbuild/extlibs/CreateLicenseSummary.java
   
   That task is invoked from the build script and merges the informations.
   
   I don't consider the approach of the ASF good practice - and at this point I would not move a project to the ASF, but that was/is Oracles decision.

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