[jira] [Issue Comment Deleted] (NETBEANS-54) Clarify the status of donated files from ApacheNetBeansDonation1.zip

["Geertjan Wielenga (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-54?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Geertjan Wielenga updated NETBEANS-54:
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    Comment: was deleted

(was: Well, Sun became part of Oracle and, though the Sun licenses should have
been relicensed to Oracle, in some cases they weren't. Also, when we were
preparing the donation, our approach was to make a 'best effort' in terms
of relicensing from Sun to Oracle and from other licenses to Oracle, since
the intention of the donation was for everything in the ZIP file that was
to form the donation to Apache to be donated to Apache and hence the
intention was for everything in the ZIP file to ultimately be relicensed to
Apache.

I can only speak from the point of view of the intention of the 1st code
donation, i.e., the ZIP file that has been donated to Apache -- the
intention is for everything in that ZIP file to be donated and hence
relicensed to Apache.

Gj


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> Clarify the status of donated files from ApacheNetBeansDonation1.zip
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: NETBEANS-54
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-54
>             Project: NetBeans
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Bertrand Delacretaz
>         Attachments: categorized-1.zip, convert-headers-1.zip, JavaApplication9.java
>
>
> Reviewing the software grant [1] provided with the first NetBeans code donation, my understanding is that not all files found in that zip are donated.
> The grant indicates that the contents of that file [2] ("Code File") are donated "excluding any third-party and separately licensed material contained within the Code File". 
> I don't think we can consider that code ready to release as is, due to the uncertainty that this creates w.r.t to which files are donated and which are not.
> The zip archive contains about 45'000 files.
> I see the following options:
> a) Review all files and include only those which are not "third-party and separately licensed material". How such files are identified needs to be defined and documented, either in scripts under version control or as a set of rules. The review process must be documented and traceable, so that we can go back to it if problems are found in the future.
> b) Get an updated grant which does not mention such exclusions.
> If someone sees other options please discuss here or on the NetBeans dev list, referencing this ticket.
> [1] in svn under private/documents/grants/oracle-america-netbeans.pdf , ASF members have access
> [2] under http://bits.netbeans.org/download/apache-donation/  - SHA256(ApacheNetBeansDonation1.zip)=
> 7f2ca0f61953a190613c9a0fbcc1b034084b04a4d55d23c02cefffc354e7c24a



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