+1 Roman - Sounds like a reasonable approach to declare PL/Perl's ppport.h file to be exempt. For tracking purposes, I will file an issue and update LICENSE file with the exception.
-=e On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 8:09 AM, Roman Shaposhnik <[email protected]> wrote: > Forking this from the VOTE thread: > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 5:17 PM, Ed Espino <[email protected]> wrote: > > -1 : The Apache HAWQ incubator project has references to two Apache > > Category X licenses (Artistic License - licenses/LICENSE-plper.txt: > > > > - JSON 2.27 project (src/include/catalog/JSON > > - licenses/LICENSE-json.txt) > > - PL/Perl (src/pl/plperl - licenses/LICENSE-plperj.txt) > > I see that you already addresses the fact that PL/Perl seems > to be subject to the exception documented under LEGAL-79. > > On top of that, I'd like to add that as it turns out, ASF has never > formally classified Perl/Artistic license. The most informative > thread on this can be found at: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-64 > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-86 > > The later one talks specifically about JSON use case as seems > to be the case for HAWQ. > > Given this, I propose that we declare PL/Perl to be exempt (do > nothing about it). And we refactor JSON out for now. > > Sounds reasonable? > > Thanks, > Roman. > -- *Ed Espino* *[email protected] <[email protected]>*
