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Posted to legal-discuss@apache.org by "Henri Yandell (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org> on 2019/11/03 05:59:00 UTC
[jira] [Commented] (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=16965587#comment-16965587 ]
Henri Yandell commented on LEGAL-488:
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Discussion of the Snap package will probably degrade into who is publishing it. My understanding is that Apache does not publish Snap packages (I'm assuming they're not distributed from an Apache machine). Thus our opinion doesn't matter, it's up to the legal counsel of those distributing it.
I think this is probably a good exception. I'm often concerned in this type of case (language platform for app) that security issues in the platform will tie us into the update conversation, slowing things down for the user. If OpenJDK has an issue, NetBeans has to produce a new installer etc. Given NetBeans is a Java IDE, I think it's very reasonable that NetBeans will be able to stay on top of that.
[~rvs] ?
> 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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