Re: Azul and bundling of Apache NetBeans

[Geertjan Wielenga <ge...@apache.org>]

Hi all,

Thanks James, yes, it's been an interesting challenge getting as much of
NetBeans as possible over to Apache, and the process is still ongoing. :-)
And, indeed, Azul is a central place to be right now.

Others, re the branding of NetBeans with JDKs, the name -- if the binary is
unchanged, which I believe would be the case (unless the JDK vendor were to
bundle NetBeans with some vendor-specific modules, which initially at least
does not seem like something that will happen), then the name will simply
be "Apache NetBeans", e.g., a bundle at Azul would probably be named "Zulu
JDK with Apache NetBeans".

Gj

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 4:19 PM Neil C Smith <ne...@apache.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 at 14:52, Eirik Bakke <eb...@ultorg.com> wrote:
> > The only tricky thing is how to brand the bundle without violating the
> Apache trademark policies. Will every bundled distribution need to
> explicitly avoid the name "NetBeans"? Or can one say "Apache NetBeans with
> SomeCorp JDK" so long as the included NetBeans binaries are the unmodified
> Apache ones, and not a derivative? (I don't know the answer.)
>
> That's what we've said before, although should be included binaries
> are built from unmodified sources.  We only release sources! ;-)
> Although a distribution could use our signed binaries, I don't think
> requiring that is good or reasonable for an open source project.
>
> I don't think we ever decided how much patching of sources, if any, is
> allowed before people need to not call it Apache NetBeans?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Neil
>
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