On Jun 16, 2011, at 2:30 PM, Todd Lipcon wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Craig L Russell > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> There's no ambiguity. Either you ship the bits that the Apache PMC has >> voted on as a release, or you change it (one bit) and it is no longer what >> the PMC has voted on. It's a derived work. >> >> The rules for voting in Apache require that if you change a bit in an >> artifact, you can no longer count votes for the previous artifact. Because >> the new work is different. A new vote is required. >> > > Sorry, but this is just silly. Are you telling me that the httpd package in > Ubuntu isn't Apache httpd? It has 43 patches applied. Tomcat6 has 17. I'm > sure every other commonly used piece of software bundled with ubuntu has > been patched, too. I don't see them calling their packages "Ubuntu HTTP > server powered by Apache HTTPD". It's just httpd. >
well.. for RHEL in the early days of httpd, a configuration that ran on RHEL would not work on the 'vanilla' httpd. (they implemented a feature called include which could take a wildcard, which wasn't in the released version of httpd at the time) even today.. I can't build redis on my mac as I am using GNU's libtool instead of the one packaged on the mac. http://code.google.com/p/redis/issues/detail?id=443 so yes .. even a simple patch makes it derived, because it is different. > -Todd > -- > Todd Lipcon > Software Engineer, Cloudera
