On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Marvin Humphrey <mar...@rectangular.com> > wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 11:38 AM, ant elder <ant.el...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Gosh i'm pretty sure we _don't_ allow things like (L)GPL dependencies >>> in Incubator releases, we allow them in the source in SVN but i don't >>> recall any releases like that. >> >> I know AOO had interactions with Legal regarding dmake, dictionaries and so >> on, though I don't recall exactly what went into their release. I would be >> surprised if any category X dependencies have wound up in an incubating >> release without Legal's involvement. >> >> Lucy's early incubating releases had two Perl-licensed (Artistic/GPL) >> dependencies (which were not bundled, but had to be downloaded and installed >> separately by the consumer). We sought a variance from Legal and got >> specific >> approval from the Legal VP for our plan, which involved ditching both of the >> problematic dependencies prior to graduation: >> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-86 >> >> Are there other examples? > > The one that I had in mind was Roller. Several of its incubating > releases had a hard dependency on Hibernate. They were required to > clean it up before graduation, of course. > > You can look at the archives back in 2006 when it was incubating. In > particular, there is one sent to private@incubator that I would refer > you to: > http://s.apache.org/c04 [only usable by ASF Members] >
Didn't that get subsequently revised by Cliff et al into "Incubating projects must not distribute an official product release that includes works covered by an excluded license" - http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html#transition-incubator ...ant --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
