I want to check if the community thinks we're ready to spin up another RC4 voting. Let me know so I can prepare the binary. -Goden
On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 6:59 AM Goden Yao <[email protected]> wrote: > Just to confirm based on Legal-79, ppport.h is an exception with your PR, > it looks we're good now. > Thanks Ed. > -Goden > > > On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 1:52 AM Ed Espino <[email protected]> wrote: > >> FYI: the two issues related to the Perl Artistic License have been >> resolved >> in both 2.0.0.0-incubating and master branches: >> >> Remove ASF Category X incompatible JSON Perl Module (Artistic license) >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HAWQ-1062 >> >> Declare PL/Perl's ppport.h source file to be an Artistic License >> exception. >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HAWQ-1065 >> >> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 8:11 AM, Roman Shaposhnik <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 2:47 AM, Ed Espino <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > I have been reviewing the licensing of ppport.h. It is generated >> header >> > > file from Devel::PPPort - Perl/Pollution/Portability ( >> > > http://search.cpan.org/~wolfsage/Devel-PPPort-3.32/PPPort.pm). The >> file >> > > came to us from the original PostgreSQL source code base. >> Interestingly, >> > > there is this note on the project page: >> > > >> > > How to use ppport.h >> > > >> > > Don't direct the users of your module to download Devel::PPPort. They >> are >> > > most probably no XS writers. Also, don't make ppport.h optional. >> Rather, >> > > just take the most recent copy of ppport.h that you can find (e.g. by >> > > generating it with the latest Devel::PPPort release from CPAN), copy >> it >> > > into your project, adjust your project to use it, and distribute the >> > header >> > > along with your module. >> > > >> > > >> > > Is it possible this file can be an exception under the following jira: >> > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-79? >> > > >> > > I also noticed the Apache HTTP Request Library ( >> > > http://httpd.apache.org/apreq) project also ships with it's own >> ppport.h >> > > file generated in a similar way ( >> > > >> https://github.com/apache/apreq/blob/trunk/glue/perl/xsbuilder/ppport.h >> > ). >> > > >> > > @Roman or @Justin, can you provide some guidance on how to proceed >> with >> > > this file? >> > >> > See my suggestion above. On top of that, the podling needs to decide >> > whether >> > bundling Artistic/Perl code into its code base is so important that we >> > need to >> > spin ASF legal wheels in motion and ask for a formal classification of >> the >> > Artistic/Perl license. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Roman. >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> *Ed Espino* >> *[email protected] <[email protected]>* >> >
