Let's make it a build option, defaulting to no. If a user of Bigtop wants to take on GPL issues they can enable it. Then, we should be good.
On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 2:27 PM, RJ Nowling <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > The patch under review for updating Spark adds the LPGL-licensed Ganglia > client to the default build: > > > https://github.com/apache/bigtop/pull/43/files#diff-b1c0f6f3b70f642daa39c5e2b612c530R32 > > My understanding is that GPL/LGPL code is generally bad. How do we want to > handle this? Just ask Jonathan to remove the Ganglia client from the build > (which is the default way Spark is built)? Or, do we want to follow > Spark's example and enable Ganglia as an optional build option? > > The appropriate Spark JIRA is here: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-1167 > > Thanks, > RJ > -- Best regards, - Andy Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein (via Tom White)
