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Posted to legal-discuss@apache.org by Noah Slater <ns...@tumbolia.org> on 2012/10/04 12:29:20 UTC
Building against legally incompatible software on ASF infra
Hey,
Not sure if this should be taken to general@infra, or here, so please
correct me.
It has been suggested that we use build.a.o to prepare binary packages that
build against jars that are not compatible with our license. The specific
suggestion was to wget the jars from a non-ASF location, put them on the
CLASSPATH while the package is built, and then delete them. The package
itself will not contain any code, compiled or not, that is incompatible
with our license. But the incompatible code does need to be fetched at
build time, so the system can compile against it.
Is this okay?
Thanks,
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NS
Re: Building against legally incompatible software on ASF infra
Posted by Noah Slater <ns...@tumbolia.org>.
That's the way we're designing it, yep.
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Benson Margulies <bi...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 6:29 AM, Noah Slater <ns...@tumbolia.org> wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > Not sure if this should be taken to general@infra, or here, so please
> > correct me.
> >
> > It has been suggested that we use build.a.o to prepare binary packages
> that
> > build against jars that are not compatible with our license. The specific
> > suggestion was to wget the jars from a non-ASF location, put them on the
> > CLASSPATH while the package is built, and then delete them. The package
> > itself will not contain any code, compiled or not, that is incompatible
> with
> > our license. But the incompatible code does need to be fetched at build
> > time, so the system can compile against it.
> >
> > Is this okay?
>
>
> Yes. So long as, when the users goes to build from your release, this
> process is optional, and does not happen unless they ask for it.
>
>
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > NS
>
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Re: Building against legally incompatible software on ASF infra
Posted by Benson Margulies <bi...@gmail.com>.
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 6:29 AM, Noah Slater <ns...@tumbolia.org> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Not sure if this should be taken to general@infra, or here, so please
> correct me.
>
> It has been suggested that we use build.a.o to prepare binary packages that
> build against jars that are not compatible with our license. The specific
> suggestion was to wget the jars from a non-ASF location, put them on the
> CLASSPATH while the package is built, and then delete them. The package
> itself will not contain any code, compiled or not, that is incompatible with
> our license. But the incompatible code does need to be fetched at build
> time, so the system can compile against it.
>
> Is this okay?
Yes. So long as, when the users goes to build from your release, this
process is optional, and does not happen unless they ask for it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> NS
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Re: Building against legally incompatible software on ASF infra
Posted by Noah Slater <ns...@tumbolia.org>.
The intention is to provide them as convenience builds that mirror our
source releases, and perhaps nightlies.
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d....@daniel.shahaf.name>wrote:
> Noah Slater wrote on Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 11:29:20 +0100:
> > Hey,
> >
> > Not sure if this should be taken to general@infra, or here, so please
> > correct me.
> >
> > It has been suggested that we use build.a.o to prepare binary packages
> that
> > build against jars that are not compatible with our license.
>
> What are you going to do with these packages? Just have jenkins run
> 'make check' on them, or advertise them as 'nightly tarballs' for
> testers?
>
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NS
Re: Building against legally incompatible software on ASF infra
Posted by Daniel Shahaf <d....@daniel.shahaf.name>.
Noah Slater wrote on Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 11:29:20 +0100:
> Hey,
>
> Not sure if this should be taken to general@infra, or here, so please
> correct me.
>
> It has been suggested that we use build.a.o to prepare binary packages that
> build against jars that are not compatible with our license.
What are you going to do with these packages? Just have jenkins run
'make check' on them, or advertise them as 'nightly tarballs' for
testers?
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