CDDL or GPL license? - Githubissues

JaroslavTulach commented 6 years ago

Hi. I am helping the Apache incubation process of NetBeans and one of the issues we are solving is JavaHelp license (see this email for example). Apache and GPL licenses don't go well together...

I was thrilled to find out that there is this JavaHelp repository and that the source has been released under CDDL license on Jul 19, 2017. Thank you @pranjal10!

However I'd like to point out that the headers of source files still carry on the old license. I would recommend to fix that as such thing may create confusion, uncertainty and be a reason why JavaEE will not be acceptable for the Eclipse foundation.

Of course I fully understand that the last change made on Jul 19, 2017 outweights the old commits made more than ten years ago and shows the current intention to make JavaHelp available under CDDL license and I plan to act according to that. Should such relicensing not be the Oracle desire (I assume @pranjal10 acts on behalf of Oracle), can you please express that here?

Otherwise I plan to act with a goodwill and release CDDL licensed JavaHelp binary by end of November 2017.

romain-grecourt commented 6 years ago

@edbratt @bshannon

JaroslavTulach commented 6 years ago

No visible comments so far. I take it as a confirmation of my previous conclusion that JavaHelp code isn't subject to GPL virality anymore.

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