On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote:
> We can publish binary packages that include LGPL components, as long > as we communicate this very precisely. > > We can't include LGPL in a source release, but we might be able to > host a Git repository on ASF infra that includes LGPL source. As long > as we do not make any source releases from it. But I am not sure on > this point. A quick note to legal-discuss@ would clear this up. If > it's not a good idea, then yes, a Github repository would work. > AIUI, this is not a valid option. I believe the recommended option is to host these externally and manage them outside of the Apache community. I suggest reviewing the legal-discuss@ list archives and general@incubatorarchives, as this is not the first time this issue has arisen. http://markmail.org/search/?q=list%3Aorg.apache.incubator.general+LGPL http://markmail.org/search/?q=list%3Aorg.apache.legal-discuss+LGPL > On 22 November 2013 11:52, Kasper Sørensen > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > At Human Inference (and in the old eobjects.org community of MetaModel) > we > > have a number of small projects/modules that provide the capability of > > Apache MetaModel to connect to these additional datastore types: > > > > * SAS datasets (.sas7bdat files) > > * dBase databases (.dbf files) > > * MS Access databases > > > > For various reasons, these modules could not be Apache licensed, so they > > have to live on somewhere else with the LGPL license. Right now they're > > individually available at different SVN locations etc. etc... I would > like > > to see if we can clean that up a bit and make a package available with a > > name like "MetaModel extras". > > > > Obviously without any commitment from the Apache community, I wanted to > ask > > if anyone had any preference as to where and how we publish these > modules. > > I am thinking we might do something like putting them on GitHub, and for > > now still use package name and Maven group id like "org.eobjects....". > > > > Kind regards, > > Kasper > > > > -- > Noah Slater > https://twitter.com/nslater >
