Kafka downloads the wrapper jar at build time - https://github.com/apache/kafka/ <https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/0.8.2/gradlew> - that's probably the route we should take.
A. On Wednesday, April 15, 2015, Jochen Theodorou <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 15.04.2015 21:47, schrieb Jacopo Cappellato: > >> Hi Cédric, >> >> as far as I know there is no policy that prevent to include binaries >> (e.g. jar) for external products, as long as the license is compatible (and >> Gradle license is definitely compatible being ASL 2.0) in the source tree >> or in the source release. >> > > 3.6 of http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html > """ > 3.6 Release consists of source code only, no binaries. > Each Apache release must contain a source package. This package may > not contain compiled components (such as "jar" files) because compiled > components are not open source, even if they were built from open source. > """ > > So if it goes strictly by the words, then it is questionable. And since > gradle is kind of a special case, Cedric asked that question > > bye blackdrag > > -- > Jochen "blackdrag" Theodorou > blog: http://blackdragsview.blogspot.com/ > >
