Poor wording on my end -- I meant that we need to be careful about
including (L)GPL code in Apache projects.

Thanks for pointing that out, Cos!

On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Konstantin Boudnik <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>

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