On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 12:13 AM, Manuel Faux <manuel.f...@conf.at> wrote:
> NetBeans 7.4 requires a file called jnlp-servlet.jar which is part of > the Oracle JDK and itself non-free licensed. The file is not required > for building, but for specific functions of the software. > More concrete, the file is required if "one wants to build a packaged > war file of JNLP version of a suite". > > It seems like only the class jnlp.sample.servlet.JnlpDownloadServlet is > required, but I could not find it in the OpenJKD. > > How is this normally handled? Should we add a file to the docs which > describes that for this specific functionality that file is required? > > Manuel > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct The answer is simple. Remove the file. Don't distribute it in Fedora. Have a README.fedora file in /usr/share/docs/netbeans (or whatever) which explains that this file was removed due to licensing issues and how to get it. DISCLAIMER: I am not a lawyer nor a representative of Fedora Legal. You should contact them in the legal mailing list to get proper clarification of this situation from a legal point of view. -- -Elad Alfassa.
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