Re: [jira] [Commented] (LEGAL-488) Bundling GPL+CPE (OpenJDK) into convenience binaries.

[Fantri Fitriani <fa...@gmail.com>]

Pada tanggal Sen, 11 Nov 2019 07.43, Laszlo Kishalmi (Jira) <ji...@apache.org>
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> Laszlo Kishalmi commented on LEGAL-488:
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> As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you
>  permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an
>  executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent modules,
>  and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under terms of your
>  choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked independent module,
>  the terms and conditions of the license of that module. An independent
>  module is a module which is not derived from or based on this library. If
>  you modify this library, you may extend this exception to your version of
>  the library, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do
>  so, delete this exception statement from your version.
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> My reading of this: "link this library with independent modules to produce
> an executable" the executable are the convenience binaries, as we take our
> modules and link with OpenJDK, we do not modify the OpenJDK itself.
> So this special exception give us the permission to *copy and distribute*
> the resulting *executable*: OpenJDK and our NetBeans jars, *under the terms
> of our choice*.
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> We could do it as long as we meet the licensing conditions of each linked
> independent module. Thanks to Apache we really care about meeting these
> licenses when including them to NetBeans, so we shall be fine with this.
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> All with this, I just would like to avoid the situation to ask something
> from OpenJDK which they think is already provided by the Classpath
> Exception. Though I can ask them again if my reading of the CPE is correct
> or we shall do something more.
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> > 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
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> > 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.
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> > So what's the Legals opinion about bundling OpenJDK in the convenience
> binaries?
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