Dear devs,
I've looking into the 1.0.0 build processes and I noticed a couple things
that I don't understand.
1. During the build, nifi-web-ui (and another modules) use NodeJS. This
entails the "frontend-maven-plugin" actually downloading and executing
binary code. That's not something I'd normally expect in a Maven build,
especially when the downloads do not come from repositories referenced in
the NiFi build configuration.
Is installing a foreign binary and executing it during a build a
problem under Apache?
2. The build uses NodeJS, NPM, and Bower (maybe more) but I cannot find any
references to those tools in the license files. Node appears to have it's
own license, with a good bit of stuff rolled in as well. If the relevant
licenses are not Apache compatible this could be a problem.
Are there any license whisperers who can look at how these need to be
reconciled?
Sorry if I'm sounding false alarms, but this caught me off guard. I
apologize if missed a prior discussion of this on the dev list.
Regards,
Joe
