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

On 6 Oct 2016, at 12:19, Max Rydahl Andersen <manderse(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > 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 http://about.me/maxandersen