[jbosstools-dev] News from the Eclipse Planning Council: Neon.1a respin next week, JDK 9 delayed to July 2017, Type A licensing concerns

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

On 5 Oct 2016, at 19:03, Nick Boldt wrote:

> * There was also much discussion around the new Type A (only the
> license is checked) vs. Type B (old school full due diligence, with
> code provenance checked too) licensing. Decision was to only include
> type B stuff in release train for now, and wait for projects to
> complain they should be included, or perform more due diligence to be
> upgraded to Type B. Including Type A stuff opens a lot of trickle-down
> problems that no one wants to deal with unless we have to, such as
> "will end users still be allowed by their employer to use Eclipse, if
> there's no longer a guarantee of provenance check in the bundles?".
> More: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=501014

gah - thats annoying.

Do they even have a Type A project yet to exclude ?

Why not be open by default and handle it if there are issues ?

/max
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