Hi, > Sorry if this call was confusing, but yes it is a call for a vote.
The process is to call for a vote on the general incubator list after the poddling have voted on their dev list. > We know about the issue with GPL (Hibernate Entity Manager), and started > a discussion thread a while ago, asking for some guidance. It was not really > clear to us, if we really need to change it, given we release source only and > only > use Hibernate at runtime for our integration tests. If is only used for integration tests that may possibly be OK [1][2] but the best way to be sure is to ask on legal discuss. If you want to make a release with a GPL dependancy you’ll need legal VP approval (two incubator projects did this recently). Thanks, Justin 1. http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#optional 2. http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#build-tools
