Great idea Alex. I am travelling today, but I will send something to them tonight when I get to my hotel.
Thanks, Chris On Jan 7, 2008 12:37 AM, Emmanuel Lecharny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Chris ! > > yeah, I think Alex is right, we should ask [EMAIL PROTECTED] to see if this > is a > potential problem or not. > > Blind guess is that if we have to include a LGPL lib to the distribution > package, we are FU. > > Alex Karasulu wrote: > > Could you run this by legal@ to see what the final verdict is? > > > > Alex > > > > On Jan 6, 2008 6:44 PM, Chris Custine <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > I have spoken with a few people about checking out OpenInstaller > > in the past few weeks and I wanted to give a quick little bit of > > information. I think the OpenInstaller project would be very cool > > for building up some consistent cross-platform installers using a > > single toolkit. However, while I was reviewing the licensing of > > the dependencies this weekend, I realized that the packager embeds > > at least one LGPL product inside the installer package (primarily > > CHARVA which looks like the tool used to create text based > > installers). This means that to ship installers based on this > > toolkit, we would be shipping LGPL libs embedded in the installer > > toolkit. So at this point I am not sure if there is any point in > > continuing down that path, but if anyone has any opinions > > otherwise let me know. > > > > The alternative for now is to continue to expand the current > > installers to additional specific platform packaging (Debian and > > Sun Pkg manager are frequently requested), which is something I > > was trying to help us avoid since maintenance and consistency of > > the packages requires a fair bit of time and interest, neither of > > which are in abundance. > > > > I have started reviewing the current installers and should have > > some of the current issues cleaned up by next weekend, but I can't > > guarantee that I have the bandwidth to learn how to create the deb > > and Sun pkg installers any time soon so if anyone else wants to > > lend a hand with that it would be appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > Chris > > > > > > > -- > -- > cordialement, regards, > Emmanuel Lécharny > www.iktek.com > directory.apache.org > > >
