There are a number of jars that were included in the hadoop 0.2 release because they are dependencies of hadoop. Many of these are optional jars -- they are not actually needed to run hadoop. Things like kfs and jets3t for example are libraries that are used to run hadoop on filesystems other than hdfs.
License aside, they are not required for the build. They have been explicitly excluded as dependencies in HEAD, for the case of hadoop-0.2 you can comment out the dependency from the pom, and perform the build without them. On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 4:27 PM, James James <[email protected]> wrote: > --> Really? From what I could find, it's under Apache 2.0: > > Sorry, did I get this wrong? This is where I found the information > > http://www.filewatcher.com/p/kfs-0.3.4-280.i586.rpm.211816/HEADER.html > > Is this the jar file used in Mahout? > > Thanks, > > James > > > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Ken Krugler <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wed, December 30, 2009 2:56:12 PM > Subject: Re: GPL-licensed kfs0.3 for building mahout > > > On Dec 30, 2009, at 11:46am, James James wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I examined all the jar files needed for building mahout-0.2 jar. There is >> one jar file called kfs-0.3.jar which is GPL-licensed. > > Really? From what I could find, it's under Apache 2.0: > > http://blog.kosmix.com/kosmix-technology/kosmos-filesystem-release/ > > Though it seems odd that the jar is in the org.apache.mahout.kosmofs groupId, > vs. org.kosmix (with artifactId of kosmosfs) > > -- Ken >> I am not an expert on open source licenses, but my understanding is that GPL >> is viral. Mahout itself is licensed under Apache License, but does its >> dependence on this GPL-licensed jar file contaminate itself? This issue >> seems to also be relevant for Hadoop since Hadopp seems to rely on this >> kfs-0.3.jar too. >> >> Is there any way to build mahout-0.2 without relying on kfs-0.3.jar? >> >> Thanks so very much. >> >> > > -------------------------------------------- > Ken Krugler > +1 530-210-6378 > http://bixolabs.com > e l a s t i c w e b m i n i n g > > >
