OK, I couldn't help myself. I was procrastinating anyways, so I implemented the euca2ools. It really annoys me how I have managed to torture myself with Java CLI tools for almost a year, when I could have used this instead. Wow! euca2ools work really well and are way faster. Not having to set EC2_HOME, EC2_API_TOOLS_HOME, EC2_AMI_TOOLS_HOME and adding all of that to PATH is quite a relief. I will push my changes tonight (GMT+1).
Anders On 12 November 2012 13:44, Stefano Zacchiroli <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:52:30AM -0500, Brian Gupta wrote: >> So it looks like the licensing on the cfn-helper scripts is the Amazon >> Software License which looks like it is not DFSG compliant ( >> http://aws.amazon.com/asl/), is there any chance you could ask Amazon to >> see if they would consider releasing them under a DFSG-compliant license, >> or modifying their license to be compliant? (Or if you are too busy, I >> could ask some folks I know at Amazon, but I'm guessing you guys would have >> better luck.) >> >> I believe the biggest issue is the "Use limitation": > […] >> If we can resolve the licensing issue, I would be willing to do the work to >> create and maintain a package. > > As far as I can tell this is not a must to produce images, but would be > a nice to have. I mention this just to prioritize the issues wrt others. > > That said, I agree with your suggestion. Given there is interest also on > the Amazon side to have Debian listed, we should definitely present this > as a problem, mentioning that we would like to include the > CloudFormation helper scripts [1], but that we cannot due to the current > license. > > I guess the most efficient channel to do that is via James, who kindly > offered to do so. James: feel free to get me in the loop of those > conversations, if you think it would be useful. Regarding the script > sources, they seem to point to a source RPM [2] as the most appropriate > origin for other distros. > > Cheers. > > [1]: > http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/cfn-helper-scripts-reference.html > [2]: > https://s3.amazonaws.com/cloudformation-examples/aws-cfn-bootstrap-latest.src.rpm > -- > Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . [email protected] . . . . o . . . o . o > Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o > Debian Project Leader . . . . . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . > « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club » -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/camcogxgvxehu39ssmtxzmidahkid_i1qfeteyzszug1ohep...@mail.gmail.com
