Yes, exactly -- the client_api.footer.in file.

Thanks for clarifying on this!


Best regards,

Alexey

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 7:05 PM, Todd Lipcon <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 7:03 PM, Alexey Serbin <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Todd,
> >
> > Thank you for spotting the issue.
> >
> > Yep, we keep the directives which we changed to non-default value(s).
> >
> > For those, I used those auto-generated comments and added some
> description
> > explaining the reason for overriding.
> >
> > I'll remove the auto-generated part from those comments.  Will send a
> patch
> > for review in a moment.
> >
> > BTW, could somebody assess the footer of the auto-generated docs?  We
> have
> > an Apache copyright there along with 'Generated by Doxygen ...'.  It
> might
> > make sense to verify that we are OK there as well.
> >
>
> You mean docs/support/doxygen/client_api.footer.in right? I was just in
> the
> process of adding it to the RAT exclude list.
>
> I don't think this one's problematic. Doxygen explicitly states that the
> generated docs are licensed the same as the source used to generate them.
>
> -Todd
>
>
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Alexey
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Todd Lipcon <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > It looks like this licensing question may affect us too. Alexey, did
> you
> > > use the same generaotr/template to create our doxygen config files?
> Maybe
> > > we should remove some of the comments to be sure we're on the right
> side
> > of
> > > the licensing before our 1.0 release?
> > >
> > > -Todd
> > >
> > >
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > From: Ryan Blue <[email protected]>
> > > Date: Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 10:58 AM
> > > Subject: Re: Config file comments generated by GPL tools
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > Cc: "dev@impala" <[email protected]>
> > >
> > >
> > > We had the same issue last year when we audited Avro's license
> > > documentation. This is tracked at LEGAL-224 [1] and we did reach out to
> > > doxygen [2]. The doxygen developer, Dimitri clarified that he doesn't
> > > intend for the doxy config files to be GPL, but hasn't clarified the
> > > license to my knowledge. In the end, we created a new config file with
> > all
> > > of the non-default settings and none of the nice descriptions you get
> > with
> > > the generated file.
> > >
> > > rb
> > >
> > >
> > > [1]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-224
> > > [2]: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=755135
> > >
> > > On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 10:52 AM, Todd Lipcon <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Maybe it's worth reaching out to the doxygen authors and ask them to
> > add
> > > a
> > > > header on that file saying that the prose in the documentation may be
> > > > licensed under a different more permissive license? (e.g MIT/BSD?)
> > > >
> > > > -Todd
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Jim Apple <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Apache Impala (incubating)  includes a file that includes
> substantial
> > > >> portions containing prose that is only licensed, as far as I can
> tell,
> > > in
> > > >> a
> > > >> GPL way:
> > > >>
> > > >> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=incubator-impala.g
> > > >> it;a=blob;f=be/.impala.doxy;h=4b81af4bab3c04ab60f84e29b70790
> > > >> 26e9959bf2;hb=fcb5c6821d1a0b2d49212dd791c4556dd5ac6c9e
> > > >>
> > > >> https://github.com/doxygen/doxygen/blob/b38efd15eb69b2b61e05
> > > >> ee09fc9ed6474cc8b1da/src/config.xml
> > > >>
> > > >> Can we keep that config file in our project as-is, or do we need to
> > > remove
> > > >> the prose, or perhaps some third thing?
> > > >>
> > > >> Thanks for your help,
> > > >> Jim
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Todd Lipcon
> > > > Software Engineer, Cloudera
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Ryan Blue
> > > Software Engineer
> > > Netflix
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Todd Lipcon
> > > Software Engineer, Cloudera
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Todd Lipcon
> Software Engineer, Cloudera
>

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