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 > >
