On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 02:24PM, RJ Nowling wrote:
> Poor wording on my end -- I meant that we need to be careful about

Nah, no worries: I am not that easily hurt ;)_

> 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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