To quote Niclas in the legal thread: The notion that these jars are "not open source" and must therefor not be used in the way they are intended is a preposterous stance
This seems to genuinely be against policy in a way that is profoundly frustrating: the source of the project is available, the dependencies are included compiled, forcing those to be stripped is just ridiculous. > On Mar 26, 2021, at 6:59 PM, Justin Mclean <jmcl...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi, > >> Could you clarify why you think this is incompatible with ASF policy? > > Because a source release could not contain compiled code (category A or > otherwise), if it does then it not open source. See for instance [1]. This is > why tools like Apache Rat look for certain types of binary files in release > artefacts. > > This has also come up before a number of times e.g. including the gradle jar > in a source release e.g [2] > > Thanks, > Justin > > 1. http://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#artifacts > 2. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-288 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org >
