Hi, Can we establish a page in the wiki with the problematic libraries:
org.jdesktop.beansbinding org.jdesktop.swingx javahelp Are there others? What is to do? How can the functionality in the first two be substituted? What can we do to substitute javahelp. best regards Oliver > The owner is Oracle. And the JSR for BeansBinding is dead. > > And that is not my point — my point is that any plugin using that JAR needs > to be rewritten to not use it. > > Gj > > > On Friday, August 3, 2018, Boris Heithecker <boris.heithec...@gmx.net> > > wrote: > > Hi, > > does anybody know who's the owner of org.jdesktop.beansbinding? Whom > > should I contact? Is the license really GPL, or LGPL? Same question > > applies to org.jdesktop.swingx: GPL oder LGPL? Who's the owner? > > Havn't found any robust information about these libraries so far. > > Am I allowed to ship them with my platform application? > > Boris > > > > 2018-08-03 9:59 GMT+02:00 Geertjan Wielenga > > > > <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com.invalid>: > > > And the solution is to get hold of the owners of the plugins that do not > > > work with 9.0 and ask them/work with them to make them compatible with > > > > 9.0. > > > > > Gj > > > > > > On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 9:57 AM, Geertjan Wielenga > > > > > > <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > >> The problems are a bit more complex than how you describe them, in the > > >> case of Apache NetBeans. > > >> > > >> Take for example 'org.jdesktop.beansbinding'. > > >> > > >> This is a library that has been part of NetBeans for many years. And > > > > it's > > > > >> been used by a variety of plugins as well, such as some of those you > > > > seem to > > > > >> be trying to install. > > >> > > >> However, the licensing of that library is GPL. The Apache Software > > >> Foundation does not allow Apache projects to distribute GPL-based > > > > libraries. > > > > >> So, we had to remove it from Apache NetBeans. > > >> > > >> And now some of the plugins that rely on that library will not work. > > >> > > >> There are other similar cases, though not too many. Another example is > > >> Hibernate (http://hibernate.org/community/license), which had to be > >
