It was not Bertrand that said that. It was Brane. It was a question which I answered by giving a background on JBurg. Case closed.
I understood the question as Alex did that he was confused on how we could be compiling Cat B in our distributed binaries (which is not the case). There are no issues with having an EXTERNAL dependency any more than there’s a concern of having a dependency on an operating system. Let’s please not make issues where none exist. Harbs On Oct 24, 2014, at 10:19 AM, Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote: > Hi, > >> We can go ask the poster what he meant, but I am going to assume he is >> either mistaken > > Bertrand (an ex mentor of our project) usually knows what he talking about. I > have seen this optional ve mandatory mentioned a few times elsewhere as well, > but was unable to find a clear definition / example in the mailing list > archives. > > I know what a Category B licences is, a simple link to the Apache docs would > of sufficed for other people rather than copying the whole text. It's nice to > try and keep emails short. > >> Also, note that the main SDK has a required Category B binary dependency on >> the OSMF.swc. > > While we've stated osmf as required leaving it out just breaks the spark > video player so it could possibly be considered optional. I don't know what > the answer is here or understand the mandatory/optional distinction which is > why I asked. > > Also on email etiquette it would be good if people refrain from formatting > emails with very short line lengths it makes them hard to read. (In this case > your reply didn't fit on a single screen). All modern email clients support > line wrapping / resizable windows and I think we're past the days of reading > email in a 80x25 terminal window :-) > > Thanks, > Justin
