Well, there's nothing wrong with (L)GPL code, nor license. There's impedance mismatch between that and ASL, but after all many things in the world aren't compatible: it doesn't mean they are bad. If it were so bad we wouldn't have the hands-down majority of the FOSS code written under it as of today.
IMO, the best to document the build option is in the BUILDING.txt, as I have commented on JIRA already. Cos On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 11:27PM, RJ Nowling 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
