On 3 October 2006 at 9:33, "Geir Magnusson Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Mark Hindess wrote: > > On 3 October 2006 at 19:16, "Mikhail Loenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 2006/10/3, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>> > >>> Alexey Petrenko wrote: > >>>> I agree that downloading of prebuilt libraries is better choice. > >>>> > >>>> So we got only two options: > >>>> 1. Find prebuilt libraries somewhere. > >>>> 2. Build them ourselves and store them somewhere. > >>>> > >>>> I've tried to find prebuilt libraries but I was not successful. So it > >>>> seems that the only option is to build them ourselves. > >>>> And the only question is: Where to store them? > >>>> > >>>> Any ideas? > >>> As I threatened in my original post, I put them in > >>> > >>> http://people.apache.org/~geirm/harmony/ > >>> > >>> I could move them to the snapshot directory too, but I figure no one is > >>> going to assume that we are formally distributing them if they are in a > >>> personal directory. > >> Interesting statement. IANAL, but I'd assume we are > > > > Certainly we are in that sense but I don't think that is the issue Geir > > was trying to address. (This certainly means we needed to meet the > > license requirements for distribution - though IIRC they are fairly > > minimal for these particular packages.) > > > > The issue is whether the Apache Software Foundation is considered > > to be formally responsible or if it is just something Geir is doing > > personally. > > > Well, if the project build is tied to it, it should be considered > something we are doing as a project *for ourselves*. > > In the same way that we stuff things into SVN for our use, we aren't > claiming to be a distributor of those things. Sure, it's available to > evereyone, but that's because of the open way we work.
That seems a reasonable argument. I'll start looking at the fetch-depends tweaks. -Mark. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
