Hi Stamatis, I have an answer here [1], I was checking some archives with similar issues, [2] has similar stuff & so does a couple of more.
-Ayush [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-683?focusedCommentId=17886047&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-17886047 [2] https://lists.apache.org/thread/d28j5q6f4fm14xjvl6kk4fs77j1zl3p3 On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 at 13:39, Stamatis Zampetakis <zabe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The -1 on releases is not a veto [1]. It's up to the release manager > to take the final decision to proceed with release or not. The thread > has already 3 +1 (binding) votes so my -1 has an advisory tone. > > The files that are present in the release sources are not contributed > explicitly to the project and they don't have ASF headers so from my > perspective licensing here is a bit unclear. I am not the most > knowledgeable person about the legal implications of this but if > others believe it's ok I am perfectly fine with that. I could even > change my vote if someone from the legal team confirms that it's ok to > have extra files in the sources. > > If the release artifacts change then we are necessarily talking about > a new RC and thus a new vote. The tests on binaries are not something > enforced by the ASF policy so people can act as they see fit. > > Best, > Stamatis > > [1] https://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html#ReleaseVotes > > On Tue, Oct 1, 2024 at 9:28 AM Denys Kuzmenko <dkuzme...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > My take on this is that we do not need a new RC since the code hasn't > > changed, `impl` files were removed just from packaged sources. > > > > Maybe we could start a new vote, but there is no need for a new RC. We > > don't need to repeat tests on binaries, just build from sources and do the > > checks. > > > > And by the way, there was no reason for `-1` we could have released Hive as > > it was since many projects had the same and we also confirmed with the > > legal (Justin Mclean) that it wasn't a problem.
