Hey Benson, On Dec 30, 2011, at 8:25 AM, Benson Margulies wrote:
> So, this leaves me with two questions: could comdev write a less > comprehensive set of verbs here within the existing board@ mandate? > And is there any point to a discussion on board@ about the starting > point of all this: committers want to build glue-code to LGPL without > violating policy. > > I will now go off on a tangent of an alternative approach that, for > some reason, I think sidesteps this whole business. > > Let's imagine that OODT is built with Maven. Let's further imaging > that there's a profile that is off by default, that has a big fat > comment on it: "Activating this profile will incorporate LGPL > dependencies into your build." Heck, further imagine that turning it > on makes the build print out a warning and wait for the user to say > 'yes' before proceeding. > It has been my understanding that this sort of thing is permissible. Yeah mine too. I just saw Extras as an "extra" way (pun intended) to even add another "YES ARE YOU F*#(#(#-ing sure?" prompt? I thought of Extras as a home for "sort of Apache" software, with the ability to say isolate Apache related projects that want to dynamically (not mandatory) link to LGPL plugins and lib in precisely the ways you've specified. Not a loophole. A sanctioned "this is not Apache, but we kind of run it and are OK with it since it's not the official ivory tower" place. > > I imagine that Ross would like us to go get some other venue for this > discussion, so I'll stop here. Yeah me too. We are in alignment I think with our understanding. I'll just call it org.apacheextras and then if someone ever elects me to board I may make more noise *grin* :) Happy Holidays! Cheers, Chris ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: chris.a.mattm...@nasa.gov WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
