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

[Max Andersen]

Awesome. Saw this mail after my last response. Cool. 

/max
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> On 6 Oct 2016, at 12:19, Max Rydahl Andersen <manderse at redhat.com> 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
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