If you will all excuse a voice from the peanut gallery: Many PMCs take a very relaxed attitude toward external dependencies that are self-evidently qualified under the 'previously answered questions' list from Apache Legal. At CXF, for example, no one even raises an eyebrow about adding a 'category A' dependency to a non-ASF / non-ASL component. If some folks would like the maven PMC to hold a vote to adopt that attitude, might I suggest that you hold a vote for that idea and thus reduce the collective blood-pressure?
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 3:37 AM, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote: > > On Jan 24, 2011, at 9:16 PM, Brett Porter wrote: > >> >> On 23/01/2011, at 4:34 AM, Ralph Goers wrote: >> >>> From what I can tell Sisu was previously under the Apache license but now >>> also seems to have the EPL attached to it. Until the PMC makes a decision >>> on how it is going to handle dependencies being managed by Sonatype I must >>> veto any version changes on these artifacts. Please revert this change. >> >> So, normally a veto is worked through until consensus is reached rather than >> just dropping the change. It's a harsh step, but only applies to a single >> change and not a block on all changes. There's no need for overreactions, >> let's just try and resolve it. >> >> Is the only way to move forward to determine how to handle third-party >> dependencies, and how to apply it to current ones? Or is there another >> suggestion someone would like to make? >> >> - Brett > > All I asked for was for the PMC to define a policy - any policy - and then > I'd remove the veto. Even a policy of "we don't care as long as it meets > licensing requirements" would suffice. I am just requesting that the PMC > formally state what it wants to do for the record. > > Ralph > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
