Fix license info for the binaries #27
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Analysis of Jaroslav Tulach shows, that the whole nb-javac source is covered by the Classpath Exception: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r821d9e9fdc8d9fd5663e7c326d25e4626e1a27eb13e45f4d639ea199%40%3Cdev.netbeans.apache.org%3E I did an independend check and came to the same conclusion. The problem is, that the license file says, that it might only apply to a subset of the source files and thus leaves users of the binary in a bad situation, as they have to speculate, whether or not the binary was build only from source files covered by the Class Path exception. This change adds a license file only for the binary build artifacts, which clarifies that the build binary as a whole is covered by the Classpath Exception. Only the two binary jars are affected. The license for the doc and source artifact are unchanged. Signed-of-by: Matthias Bläsing <mblaesing@doppel-helix.eu>
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@JaroslavTulach you made the case, that the binaries for nb-javac are GPLv2-CPE (without any uncertainty) - please review and merge this change, that documents this and clarifies the situation for the users of the library. |
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As written in #26 (comment) Oracle is not willing to clean up the license situation and leaves users in an uncertain situation. This PR is therefore useless. |
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Analysis of Jaroslav Tulach shows, that the whole nb-javac source
is covered by the Classpath Exception:
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r821d9e9fdc8d9fd5663e7c326d25e4626e1a27eb13e45f4d639ea199%40%3Cdev.netbeans.apache.org%3E
I did an independend check and came to the same conclusion. The problem
is, that the license file says, that it might only apply to a subset
of the source files and thus leaves users of the binary in a bad
situation, as they have to speculate, whether or not the binary was
build only from source files covered by the Class Path exception.
This change adds a license file only for the binary build artifacts,
which clarifies that the build binary as a whole is covered by the
Classpath Exception. Only the two binary jars are affected. The
license for the doc and source artifact are unchanged.
Signed-of-by: Matthias Bläsing mblaesing@doppel-helix.eu