[NETBEANS-5109] Remove distribution of nbjavac from apache controlled infrastructure

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 12.3
• Fix Version/s: 12.3
• Component/s: java - Compiler
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Matthias Bläsing
• Reporter: Matthias Bläsing
• Created: 07/Dec/20 21:28
• Updated: 22/Feb/21 18:52
• Resolved: 22/Feb/21 18:52

Description

The ASF has a pretty clear opinion about the handling of the GPLv2-CPE. There might be an option to distribute it, but not out of the box. After the transition of NetBeans from oracle to the ASF there was a timeframe were use of the Oregon State University was ok, as the transition was happening. I think we stretched that limit to the max and thus I consider this a blocker for the next release. The nbjavac needs to be moved of ASF controlled infrastructure.

There are various options:

• Oracle could publish nbjavac to maven central
• Oracle could provide a custom updatecenter distributing the nbjavac
• Oracle could relicense javac
• Apache NetBeans could switch to the eclipse java development tools

Not all of these options are realistic, but publishing to maven central is perfectly doable.

I'll mark this as a blocker for next release, so it is not ignored.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2724
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2758