Hi Folks!

The Apache Hadoop project would like to reuse the tap-to-junit-xml perl
script y'all have in your source repo[1]. While reviewing the patch for
incorporating this into our builds, I noticed that it's licensed "under the
same terms as Perl itself."

With Hadoop's current use the file would end up in our source distribution,
so we'd need to be able to incorporate the file presumably under the terms
of the Artistic License. That license isn't yet categorized, so before I
ask legal-discuss@apache to give Hadoop a decision on if this is acceptable
I want to make sure I have the reasoning of the SpamAssassin community
correct.

>From what I can tell, y'all use this script as a part of your continuous
integration test infra and don't include it in any of your release
artifacts. Is that correct?

Presuming the above is correct, I'm guessing the PMC's reasoning is that
including the file in the source repository falls under the "use of
prohibited licensed tools during build" exception[2]. Is that accurate?


[1]
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/spamassassin/trunk/build/jenkins/tap-to-junit-xml?view=log
[2] http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#prohibited

-- 
Sean

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