+1 to remove it. Removing twitter4j example is not a big deal for me. - Jungtaek Lim (HeartSaVioR)
2016년 11월 23일 (수) 오전 6:32, Bobby Evans <[email protected]>님이 작성: > If it is just one file and it is an example I would say lets remove it. > If we are worried about it we could add in a pointer to an older release as > an example with a big warning about the license. > > > - Bobby > > On Tuesday, November 22, 2016, 3:13:14 PM CST, P. Taylor Goetz < > [email protected]> wrote:The ASF recently made the determination that the > org.json license is category x, meaning projects can’t release code that > depends on it (the short reason is the license has a “no evil” clause that > is inappropriate for a license). > > Storm is largely unaffected since we use json-simple or Jackson in most > places (we got off lucky, there are some other projects that are facing a > world of hurt). However, the twitter4j library directly includes the > org.json which makes that library category x as well. The only place the > twitter4j dependency is used is in the `PrintSampleStream` example in > storm-starter. Because of this, we can’t release. > > There’s an ongoing discussion on legal-discuss@ talking about setting a > grace period for removing that dependency. That would allow projects to > release with the dependency up to a cut-off date. There’s no decision yet > as to what the date would be, but there appears to be momentum for the > license to be “grandfathered” for a period. The two dates mentioned so far > are 12/31/16 and 6/1/17. > > There’s also an effort to get the twitter4j to solve the issue by > switching parsers. > > There are a number of approaches we could take, the simplest being to just > remove that example. But until the twitter4j library is fixed, or a policy > decision is reached regarding the grace period, we can’t release. > > What are others’ opinions on addressing this? > > I’m leaning toward just removing the code for now. It’s a very small > amount of non-critical code, and could always be brought back if the > situation changes. > > -Taylor >
