Hi All,

All projects have released new versions, so all what is left is to update our 
own dependencies and add some documentation in case you want to avoid a GPL 
library.

Thanks for all the support!

Bolke

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> Op 25 mrt. 2018 om 10:54 heeft Bolke de Bruin <[email protected]> het 
> volgende geschreven:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks to all that upvoted the issue and PR. The PR was merged! The legal 
> issue is now moot and can be fully closed when this bubbles up into the 
> releases of python-slugify and python-nvd3.
> 
> Cheers!
> Bolke
> 
>> On 23 Mar 2018, at 11:31, Bolke de Bruin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> What you might not know is that we have an outstanding issue with Legal*. 
>> Deep down our dependencies there is a GPL library called `unidecode`. 
>> Although we are not distributing this library in any form it will still be 
>> pulled in if you do an `pip install apache-airflow`. This makes some people 
>> uneasy. The author of unidecode and the dependency that pulls it in both 
>> argue that the usage is equal to using an API (i.e. glibc or kernel 
>> headers). Still some resistance is being felt from the larger Apache 
>> community. To be able to graduate from the incubator this issue certainly 
>> needs to be resolved.
>> 
>> In order to overcome the issue I have created an issue** and PR*** for 
>> python-slugify that allows al alternative implementation of the unidecode 
>> api to be used. In this case text-unidecode which is dual licensed under the 
>> Perl Artistic and GPL. Perl Artistic is compatible with the APL 2.
>> 
>> The author of python-slugify has been reluctant in the past to integrate 
>> this change. So I am calling upon the Airflow community to friendly “+1” the 
>> issue and PR in order to get this moving forward. Again I like this to be 
>> friendly, because we are happy users of said code, but I think with some 
>> extra love we might nudge the author to integrate the change.
>> 
>> Thanks and if you have any other suggestions it is highly appreciated!
>> 
>> * https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-362
>> ** Issue: https://github.com/un33k/python-slugify/issues/52
>> *** PR: https://github.com/un33k/python-slugify/pull/53
>> 
>> Bolke
> 

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