Hi dev community, Currently, when MXNet creates a new release, we manually create the source archives using commands in the release runbook here:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/Release+Process#ReleaseProcess-Step1.10.Createartifactsforthereleaseandpushtothedistfolder Based on feedback from Apache, there are a few non-Apache 2.0 licenses files that we should not distribute in the source archives, or explicitly call them out in the LICENSE file. The following files were identified as non-AL2: 3rdparty/mkldnn/doc/assets/fonts/fontawesome-webfont* 3rdparty/mkldnn/doc/assets/fonts/lato* 3rdparty/mkldnn/doc/assets/mathjax/fonts/HTML-CSS/Asana-Math/otf* 3rdparty/mkldnn/doc/assets/mathjax/fonts/HTML-CSS/*/*/MathJax* docs/python_docs/themes/mx-theme/mxtheme/static/material-design-icons-3.0.1/iconfont/* docs/python_docs/themes/mx-theme/mxtheme/static/webfonts/fa-solid* I believe we can simply remove the entire 3rdparty/mkldnn/doc/assets directory for mkldnn and not include it in our source archive. The mxtheme has already been removed from the source tree (and replaced by doing a pip install of the mx-theme package instead) by @szha. I propose we automate this step of the release runbook by creating a script in the repo that checks out the passed tag, removes any problematic files that we can not distribute, and perform a apache-rat license check to ensure our source archive is compliant. Does anyone have any input or suggestions? Thanks, Joe
